Four weddings, music recitals, functions and funerals – Bendigo Remembrance Park’s chapel has seen a lot in its 145 years.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
On Friday the chapel was reopened to the public after the completion of its first stage of renovations.
The building even had a new name, Remembrance Parks Central Victoria chair Pam Macdonald said.
“We felt that the name ‘Mortuary Chapel’ had bad connotations in today’s environment, so it will now be called the Bendigo Chapel,” she said.
Related:
Refurbishment works included repairing the roof, bell fleche and interior floor, as well as the reinstatement of a a storm water drainage system to move water away from the building.
The chapel had largely been closed for the past two decades, but would now reopen to a range of events, not just funerals.
The building was one of the few multi-denominational mortuary chapels in the world, with others in the United Kingdom destroyed by bombs during World War Two.
