High Street chapel to welcome visitors for Imberbus Day

Residents can visit St Lawrence Chapel on the High Street for tours and cream tea on Imberbus Day this weekend.

Imberbus Day will return on Saturday 15th August, when buses will pick people up from outside Warminster Train Station and take them to Imber, a ‘lost’ village evacuated in 1943 to provide space for military training.

On the day, St Lawrence Chapel will be serving cream tea on the lawn, while the Feoffees provide tours of the chapel from 10am until 4pm.

Visitors will have the opportunity to go into the tower and see the clock dating from 1764 and the bell dating from 1657. This year, visitors can also enjoy the dinosaur on the chapel’s lawn as part of Roarminster.

To prepare for the event, Feoffees Ray Mills and Dan Keene cleaned and repainted the chapel’s 1850 railings and cleared the path of weeds for visitors.

“They worked tirelessly in the recent hot weather to give them a fresh coat of black and gold paint,” said Ian Frostick, chair of the Feoffees and Trustees. “They did a fantastic job, many thanks to both of them for all their efforts.”

St Lawrence Chapel has longstanding connections with Imberbus Day. Earlier this year, Minister of State in the Department for Transport Peter Hendy, who runs Imberbus Day through The Hendy and Pendle Charitable Trust, donated funds to support repairs at the chapel.

“We would like to thank Lord Peter Hendy for all his efforts with the Imberbus Day and the generous donation to the chapel that was used to buy the new bell rope, flagpole and collapsible chairs for events,” said Ian. “Visitors to the Chapel on the Imberbus Day will all have the opportunity to ring the main bell.”

For more information about Imberbus Day, visit imberbus.org.