The lost chapel

Lyscombe Chapel hides in an unspoilt and hidden valley, no signpost marks it out, while the only way to reach it is on your plates of meat. 

Dating from the 13th century, it was connected to the monastery of Milton Abbas, possibly as a stopover for wandering monks with the princely rent of twelve fishes being paid to the landowner. Following the Dissolution the chapel and accompanying priest's house became a bakehouse for several hundred years.

More recently it lay abandoned and was doomed to crumble to nothingness until the enlightened landowner breathed life into it once again.

The resulting restoration meant that in 2007 Mass was celebrated here for the first time in 500 years.