Commemorative plaque 77148

This blue commemorative plaque records: St Margaret Chapel. On this site stood the 14th century St. Margaret Chapel, the first known church in Exmouth. Probably built as a votive chapel by the monks of Sherborne Abbey as a resting place when traveling to their lands in Torbay. In the 18th century it was leased as a tailor and by the middle of the 19th century it was a butchers shop. It was demolished in the mid 1970s to make way for the Magnolia Centre. Recorded plaque organisation: Exmouth Society.

St Margaret Chapel, erected in the 14th century, was the first known church in Exmouth and initially served as a resting place for monks from Sherborne Abbey; it later transitioned into secular use before its demolition in the mid-1970s.