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Berry Tower
The town of Bodmin has played a central role in the development of
Christianity in Cornwall, and tradition, legend and history combine
to suggest that the area around the Berry Tower was an early focus
of settlement. |
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Roche Rock Chapel
Built in the early fifteenth century and dedicated in 1409 to St
Michael the chapel, built on the precipitous outcrop of Roche Rock,
ingeniously incorporates the bedrock in its structure. |
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Trethevey Chapel
The present Trethevey chapel is a rebuilt structure on
the original foundations of a chapel recorded in 1457 when John
Gregory, Vicar of Tintagel, was granted a licence to celebrate Mass
there. |
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The term ’chapel’ has many meanings, but is here taken to refer to a
building or a room used specifically as a place of Christian worship
during the mediæval period. A chapel may be a separate building, or
part of a church or private residence.
Chapels can have specific functions, as oratories for instance or as
a places devoted to special services. In the post-mediæval period
the term came to indicate a place of worship for members of various
dissenting Protestant churches, as Baptists or Methodists. |
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