Ruins of Chapel of the Holy Ghost, Basingstoke, Hampshire
The chapel is related to an earlier cemetery on the same site. The cemetery dates from the period of the Interdict (c1208). This is when King John and all of England was excommunicated by the Pope. Burials could not take place in consecrated ground. In 1214, after the Interdict, the ground was consecrated and a chapel built there. It is certain that a chapel of the HOLY GHOST stood there before A.D.1244, when it is mentioned in documentary evidence.
