Sandham – World Famous Chapel

This world famous chapel containing Stanley Spencer’s visionary paintings will be welcoming visitors again when it opens for the new season on Thursday March 5^th at 11am.

Three walls of the Chapel are home to 19 oil paintings and are considered by many to be the artist Stanley Spencer’s finest achievement. The art work was inspired by Spencer’s own wartime experiences as a medical orderly at the Beaufort Hospital in Bristol and as a soldier serving on the Salonika front.

New Exhibition

This new exhibition honours the ‘quiet intensity of ordinary life’ in Stanley Spencer’s paintings.

Hampshire artist Ed Saye’s new exhibition, Daily Quests, brings together a new body of work created in response to Sir Stanley Spencer’s epic paintings inside the chapel

Poetry and Paintings

7^th March – come and join us for an immersive deep dive into a Stanley Spencer painting, followed by a reading of poetry from the First World War. Each talk and poetry reading lasts approximately 15 minutes.

Everyday Wonders

14^th & 15^th March Nine Objects from Stanley Spencer’s Burghclere Paintings. Join us for a series of object-led talks that explore Spencer’s wartime paintings through the humble items that shaped his daily war time experiences – this month’s object, a scrubbing brush.

Opening Times

Thursday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 11am to 3pm.

Admission adult £12, child (5-17) £6.60 Family (2 adults up to 3 children) £30.

Entry free with National Trust Membership

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Email: sandham@nationaltrust.org.uk or call 01635 278394

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