The ruins of the Chapel of the Holy Ghost stand in a quiet old cemetery a short walk north of Basingstoke railway station. The chapel was founded in the early 13th century and rebuilt in elegant Tudor stone by William Sandys of The Vyne in the 1520s. Cromwell's troops shelled it during the Civil War and its glass and roof were never replaced, leaving the present picturesque shell.
The graveyard around it is older than the chapel itself — burials began here in the 13th century when the medieval town's parish churchyard ran out of space during the Black Death. It is one of the few places in central Basingstoke where the town's pre-modern layers are still visible. Best visited on a sunny weekday afternoon.