Pilgrimage to Rame Chapel

Our church organized a "pilgrimage" to Rame Chapel on Rame Head today. Rame chapel is a very tiny building on Rame Head in South East Cornwall. It is a famous landmark from both land and sea in this area. It dates back to the early 1400's and evidently in it's heyday had two storeys inside. A hermit lived "upstairs". I'm not sure whether it ever had glazed windows or not, but these days it is just a shell. It must have been a very blustery place to live as even today the wind was howling through the "windows". There are indentations in the walls where the wooden floor for the upstairs once was.

14 of us made the very short but steep walk from the car park to the chapel and we sang several hymns and said some prayers and we were given a short history of the building. The organist from Rame Church also brought along his accordion and played the accompaniment for the hymns.  Evidently they try to do this mini pilgrimage annually. It is nice to think that the chapel occasionally still gets some use.

If you can zoom in to the sea on the left of the photo, you can just make out the Eddystone Lighthouse in the distance. It looks line a black line pointing upwards with a little speck just to the right, which is the stump of the old Eddystone Lighthouse built by Smeaton and the rest of which now resides on Plymouth Hoe. My dad always used to refer to it to my kids as "Eddy and Stumpy" when they were little.