Stansted Park, PO9 6DX
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This unusual chapel is located in the grounds of Stansted Park Estate. It is open to the public when the house and grounds are open
A midday service of prayers is held here once a month; there is also a carol service at Christmas and a service on Remembrance Day. Services are published on the Octagon Website
The chapel is also available for the blessing of Civil Marriages conducted in Stansted House or elsewhere. More information can be found on the Stansted Park website.
Built by the Reverend Lewis Way in 1807, and with an unknown archictect, the chapel is a regency building incorporating earlier structures It is Grade 1 listed.
It was consecrated on 25th January 1819 (the Feast of Conversion of St Paul) by the Bishops of St David's and Gloucester. It contains a unique East window with Christian/Jewish iconography and Hebrew Tablets of the Ten commandments. John Keats attended the consecration service and used the chapel's imagery in his poems The Eve of St Agnes and The Eve of St Mark.
More information about the history and architecture of the chapel is found on Sussex Parish Churches.