The Chapel & School Room
The Chapel & This was a Chantry Chapel where the children of the town sang the office of Mass in return for an education from the resident priest.
Bishop Stapledon gave the Chapel to the town in 1314 when he was Bishop of Exeter and Lord of the Manor of Ashburton.
It is thus one of England's first grammar schools run by the church to educate local boys until it closed in 1938. |  |
| Between 1983 and 1988 the building was extensively restored by the Dartmoor National Park Authority and English Heritage. The DNPA always gives much support, both with grants and expertise, to the Guild of St. Lawrence which owns the Chapel, Tower and Stanley Gill Room. |
13th Century Window . . . This is the earliest feature of the Chapel. Formerly the east window of the medieval chantry, it was covered up during the mid-eighteenth century restoration and revealed in 1986 during conservation work. |  |