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Hampshire Delight
#4233 Holy Ghost Chapel Hampshire Evocatively named Holy Ghost Chapel in Basingstoke, Hampshire, captured here in 1772, harbours many a secret. The cemetery it served was created during the Interdict of c1208-14, ‘when King John and all of England was excommunicated by the Pope’. It meant no English burials could be placed in consecrated ground and the chapel and cemetery were created as the ‘stop-gap’ Liten – crudely, an early ‘municipal’ graveyard. It was finally consecrate
Apr 9, 2025
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