Had to shelve the longer walk to the Tarn bird sanctuary that I’d planned because I’m not feeling up to it today, but I did get to Hither Green cemetery to see the Dissenters Chapel.

Peculiar quality to the light in these pictures.

I did not get to the memorial for Sandhurst Road school, which was bombed in 1943, as there were what looked like a couple of families around that part of the cemetery and I didn’t want to intrude. @running_past has an informative (and sad) post on this. https://runner500.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/the-bombing-of-sandhurst-road-school/

My admittedly cursory google just now found nothing about the Taylor family + how they came to have the only proper mausoleum in the cemetery, but my curiosity is piqued. Sadly not in great repair, seems to be home to a wood pigeon I saw heading in thru the missing back window.

The Dissenters Chapel is a lovely gothic thing by Lee resident William Webster ( https://runner500.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/william-webster-a-victorian-building-civil-engineering-contractor), built 1873. Now half boarded up, the fence around most of it overgrown with fruiting brambles, delightfully spooky.

foiled. I shone a torch at the gap in the doors and the light didn’t penetrate an inch.

love a gargoyle

I wonder if the boarded up windows have been protected or if the boards are only there to cover gaping holes.

A rear view, close as I think I could get without possibly treading on plots. Bit hard to tell in the northern “meadow” part of the cemetery, but I thought it best not to risk it.