Basingstoke - the Chapel of the Holy Ghost

The old graveyard in "Stoke-Barehills" mentioned in Jude the Obscure

Says it all for Basingstoke today - that it's almost impossible to find the chapel.  The Samaritans and the modern shopping centre are both far better sign-posted.....  the former from necessity, I suspect. 

"The most familiar object in Stoke-Barehills nowadays is its cemetery,

standing among some picturesque mediaeval ruins beside the railway;

the modern chapels, modern tombs, and modern shrubs having a look

of intrusiveness amid the crumbling and ivy-covered decay of the

ancient walls."  

 

 

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