Dorset Architectural Heritage Week - Cemetery Chapel Day

Name: Dorset Architectural Heritage Week - Cemetery Chapel Day
Start: 2025-09-12T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-12T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Blandford Cemetery

Schedule

Fri Sep 12 2025 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Blandford Cemetery | Blandford Forum, EN

Blandford Forum Town Council are proud to be part of Dorset Architectural Heritage Week 2025.
Come along and visit the Cemetery Chapel on Friday 12th September from 10am - 2pm.
The Church of England chapel is the only such chapel in Dorset, and one of the relatively few in Britain as a whole, to retain its original furnishings with little or no modification. The only significant alteration to the interior of the chapel was the removal of the reading desk from its original position, directly opposite the entrance, to the north-east corner of the building to allow the introduction of an altar table. In order to restore this important building to its original condition, Blandford Town Council, which succeeded the former borough council as owner and operator of the cemetery in 1974, agreed in January 2000 to remove the altar and to re-instate the reading desk in its original position. The interior of the chapel is therefore now as it was when it was first opened for public use in 1855.