Wolford Chapel

Wolford Chapel in Devon, England, is the burial place of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.

The building and land are publicly owned by the Canadian province of Ontario,[1] and flies the Flag of Canada despite being in the English countryside.

Following Simcoe's death on 26 October 1806, the estate remained with the family until 1923 but was eventually sold and some parts broken up.

However, in 1966, Harmsworth decided to donate the chapel to the John Graves Simcoe Memorial Foundation on behalf of the people of Ontario.

[3] It is a small building, rectangular in plan, built of local stone rubble with limestone ashlar details and a slate roof.

Interior view looking towards the entrance in the west wall
Wolford Chapel sketched by Elizabeth Simcoe