The chapel in Warstone Lane cemetery was demolished in the 1950s, following bomb damage to the roof during World War II. The area was laid out as a Garden of Memory during the project and completed in 2022. This replicates the footprint of the original building.
3D Environment Artist Anya Vonti has used Unreal engine and her knowledge of the chapel from building plans, photographs and artworks to recreate the chapel in 3D.
These images can help us imagine how the chapel may have looked before 1941.
The chapel, which was dedicated to St Michael and All Angels had a long cloister or ambulatory, a relatively small nave and chancel and a tower topped with a 37m spire which would have been an iconic part of the Jewellery Quarter skyline.
You can see some blocks of stone from the original chapel in front of the Garden of Memory, and hunt for traces of the bombing by looking for pockmarked gravestones behind the orchard that now grows in the chancel. The Garden of Memory is once more a place for people to gather and contemplate, as the chapel once was.
