Old Chapel now Restaurant ~ Shaftesbury

LOL Rosa :))) It might have been a grave mistake :~)

I seem to remember eating here once with other members of my family on one my rare trips home. It was good.

Haha, very good Nick! Yes it's a very good restaurant. I wish they would take down that net curtain though...I will have to mention it :-)

Looks quite incongruous, Rosa, having a restaurant in a building like this. You have photographed it well with the gravestones providing the ideal foreground interest. Cheers, Joe

It looks very different at the back Joe, with a nice terrace. They used to have a much smaller restaurant, but grew in popularity, hence the move. There are some very interesting gravestones, in remarkably good condition for their age. Cheers, Rosa.

Superbe prise ... Un restaurant a proximité d'un cimetière ne peut être que paisible et inspirant.. Je vous souhaite une agréable journée salutaire.

Thank you for your kind comments Malik.
Wishing you a good Wednesday.

Good morning. Lovely shot, well done.
Have a great day ;-)

Good morning June and thanks for your kind comment.
Happy Wednesday.

...das habe ich noch nie gesehen, ein Restaurant auf einem Friedhof...

This is a first then Erika ;-)

Tout de même surprenant, en France il y a aussi des chapelles et des églises qui sont vendues et complétement transformées !
Bel après-midi Rosa.

Yes, it's quite common here too Jocelyne. More the small chapels than the churches.
Happy Wednesday.

Rosa, No "bones: about it, this is such an interesting Restaurant :) well captured, I agree with you about the curtain.! :) have a nice Wednesday. kind wishes, Sarah

Haha....good one Sarah! Yes, horrible isn't it! I expect it's in a cupboard, but still....it's gotta go!
Happy Wednesday. Best wishes, Rosa.

Beautiful architectural image.

Thank you Jaap.

Superbe image de ce restaurant insolite !
Bonne journée. Amitiés

Thank you Madeleine.
Good evening.

What an odd choice of building for a restaurant.......but I guess that's partly why it's so popular. I find myself wondering what it's like inside.

As a photographic subject it's quite lovely.............I like the stonework, especially the large columns and I suppose the gravestones make an interesting if slightly ghoulish foreground.

A cracking capture Rosa!

It's very nice inside Keith and has a small terrace at the back. I can recommend the food and they are charming :-) The gravestones are in good condition for their age.

Thanks for your great comments and wish you a good evening.

An interesting place ! I hope you can go there again soon !

Thank you. I hope so too Ulrich.
This time must be very worrying for all pubs and restaurants everywhere.

ohhhhh a besautiful architrcture and image

Thank you Annemarie.
Good evening.

“Si la montaña no viene a Mahoma. Mahoma irá a la montaña” (Francis Bacon)
He pasado dos veces por novedades y no he visto esta foto, como esto es reincidente, he ido directamente a tu página.
La fotografía aunque fúnebre, parece que goza de buena salud... está en buen estado de luz, color, encuadre y nitidez. Quienes desearan ver los nombres de las lápidas que se acerquen ahí; el tiempo borra todo, incluso en las piedras. Buen jueves Rosa.

Thank you for finding the mountain Jose Manuel ;-) It happens to me with some people, including Andy and Doug. Thank you for your kind comments on this picture. The path at the side leads to the town car park, so I passed this restaurant often. Wishing you a good Thursday also.

I think your title was good but as you say not the most tactful :) A delightful little pictorial record here. Well done.

Keep safe. Herb

I am just hoping they re-open when the time comes Herb. A very popular restaurant.
Take care and have a good Thursday. Rosa.

An imaginative use for the chapel much better than a ruin. A list of 49 at risk historic buildings in Leicestershire has just been published 41 of them are churches. Not that the list does any good the magnificent Bradgate House Stable Block a couple of miles from me has been on it for years at one time it was the top of English Heritage's at risk list it just gets worse the aggregate company that owns it probably hope it will fall down completely

There are a few at risk buildings around here Peter. My daughter writes for The Somerset Vernacular buildings Group and they are very good at keeping an eye on things!
Take care and have a good Thursday.

It's a beautiful building and good that it is being reused. I too would have been tempted to call it "Food to Die For" It does sound a lovely place to eat. I'm all for buildings having fresh purposes and not being lost. Part of the old Town House in Falkland is now a delicatessan, three churches nearby are now houses and the old thread factory up the road is now flats.

Thank you Jean. Re-purposing buildings does save them, but it is a shame that so many industries are lost. A sign of the times I suppose, when things can be made cheaper elsewhere!
Take care and have a good Thursday.

excellent et étonnant aussi*********************bonne journée mon amie ! bisous♫

Merci beaucoup Valeriane.
Bonne journée...Bisous.

Un Ristorante Italiano in this chapel: it's amazing !!!!!
When will the holy mass celebrated in a pizzeria ??? !!!!!!

Haha, you never now what will happen next Nouchet!!

Very grand architecture, perfectly suited for an Italian restaurant. You have captured it very nicely in lovely light.

Thank you Doug. I also thought that....it's the pillars that do it :-)

A fabulous photo and building! I like that the old chapels are being repurposed but I guess the high ceilings make for steep heating bills;-)

Thank you very much Gudrun. Yes I am pleased I don't have their heating bills ;-))

The menu on a tombstone? ;-D

Exceptional restaurant!

What a great idea Dida ;-))) I should mention it to them!!

Diese Kapelle in ein Restaurant umzuwandeln,auf diese Idee muss man erst kommen,diese Kapelle (Restaurant) zeigst du wunderschön von dieser Ansicht liebe Rosa,ich finde auch diese Grabsteine wunderschön:))

Wünsche Dir noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))