St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, Dorset
Visited February 2019
St Peter's Church in Bournemouth is best known as the final burial place of Mary Shelley (writer of Frankenstein) and the heart of her poet husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Also buried there are Mary's parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. They were orginially buried in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church, which I visited a month before this one (not planned!), but reinterred in Bournemouth by the Shelley's as Mary wished to be buried with her parents. All very gothic!
The church itself is a wonderful example of Gothic Revival, with a stunning interior. But then I'm always a sucker for a bit of Edward Burne Jones... Although it's in the city centre, the churchyard is quite overgrown in places with lots of mature trees and some lovely old graves set on the side of a hill. Don't miss the church and graveyard if you're in the area!
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