HERITAGE OPEN DAY OF ST PAULS CHAPEL AT STANSTED
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Join me for this 30 minute tour of the chapel that is not open a lot now to the public We can then go for a cuppa in one of the cafes and meander round the garden centre if you want Join us for a special guided tour of the beautiful Chapel of St Paul, especially for Heritage Open Days.
The site of the original medieval manor house, the Chapel you see today was created from the ruins by the Reverend Lewis Way in the 1800’s.
Consecrated in 1819, the service was attended by poet John Keats and the Chapel’s unique imagery inspired his poems The Eve of St Agnes and The Eve of St Mark.
The Dixon's, Wilder's, Whittaker's and Bessborough's all used the Chapel of St Paul as a space for private family worship; with the 9th Earl of Bessborough commissioning Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel to complete the restoration and redecoration of the space after he purchased the estate in 1924.