Open House Festival

Lumley Chapel

religious

Not known, 1100

St Dunstan's Churchyard, Church Road, Cheam, SM3 8QH

Saxon and Medieval former chancel of parish church, preserved after remainder was demolished in 1864. Part C11, with many important post-Reformation monuments, including those to the family of John, Lord Lumley of Nonsuch Palace.

Getting there

Tube

Morden

Train

Cheam

Bus

151, 213, 293, X26

Access

Facilities

Accessibility notes

There are steps into the building, and the paths through the churchyard to the building are uneven.

What you can expect

The chapel interior and exterior are very quiet (depending on who is in the building!). there is seating in and outside the building.

About

History

Managed by the Churches Conservation Trust, the Lumley Chapel is the remaining part of the mediaeval parish church of St Dunstan's. First built before the Norman Conquest, it contains many monuments to the villagers of Cheam including to John, Lord Lumley and his two wives, which dominate the chapel. The monuments hold many village tales, of schoolmasters and schoolboys, priests and lawyers, doctors and farmers, and businessmen and civil servants. A volunteer guide will be present.

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