Information for record number MWA993:
Site of Nuthurst Chapel, Tanworth in Arden.

Summary The site of a chapel dating to the Medieval period, but replaced by a mortuary chapel in the Imperial period. It is located 300m south of Little Spring Coppice.
What Is It?  
Type: Chapel
Period: Medieval (1066 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Tanworth in Arden
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 14 71
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 The site of the Medieval chapel of Nuthurst is marked by the present mortuary chapel (PRN 5132). In about 1170 Bishop Richard of Coventry confirmed to the Priory of Kenilworth the church of Hampton with its chapels, of which one is definitely said in 1216 to be at Nuthurst. As late as 1567 Edmund Fulwood of Tanworth granted certain lands to trustees for the support of a resident priest and the repair of the chapel, but by 1591 the chapel was 'decayed' and as such was among properties granted to the notorious land speculators Tipper and Dawe.
2 Document records a Chaplain of Nuthurst (1216-72) and priests are recorded in 1300 and 1329 and a chaplain in 1435. A letter of 1634 written by Sir Simon Archer records divine service at the chapel 45-50 years before and possibly more recently. A Mr Grover had attempted to ruin the chapel. In 1730 the chapel was in ruins. A painting of 1820 shows that the chapel had obviously been in ruins for a long time.
3 The mortuary chapel is 19th century. There are no remains of an earlier building.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 4, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Salzman L F (ed)
Date: 1947
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Volume/Sheet: 4
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Nuthurst
Author/originator: Belton J
Date: 1948
Page Number: 14-15
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument BUILDING * A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known. back
monument PRIORY * A monastery governed by a prior or prioress. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, FRIARY, MONASTERY or NUNNERY. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument CHAPEL * A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known. back
monument MORTUARY CHAPEL * A place of worship at the site of a mortuary. back
monument COPPICE * A managed small wood or thicket of underwood grown to be periodically cut to encourage new growth providing smaller timber. back
monument SPRING * A point where water issues naturally from the rock or soil onto the ground or into a body of surface water. back

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