Festival of Chichester 2025
Saturday, 14th June to Sunday, 20th July 2025
The Festival of Chichester is a month-long celebration of the arts running in June and July each year. It brings around 100 events to the city, from concerts to theatre, through to a whole range of talks, poetry and guided walks. St John’s Chapel hosts a number of events during the Festival.
Download the full Festival programme here: Festival of Chichester.co.uk
St John’s Chapel is a rare example of a Georgian proprietary chapel now in the care of the The Churches Conservation Trust, a national charity that looks after over 350 important redundant churches throughout England, including seven in Sussex.
The Friends of St John’s Chapel is a voluntary group that works in partnership with o secure the future of the chapel by helping to maintain it, raise awareness of it and by looking for opportunities to promote and extend its use to a wider public. The Chapel is the focus for a wide range of cultural and arts events throughout the year: it is also one of the principal venues for the annual Festival of Chichester.
The Chapel is open for visitors every day of the week 10:00am to 4:00pm.
Volunteer Friends make every effort to open the chapel to visitors. If you arrive and find the chapel unexpectedly closed please contact the Secretary at 12,St John’s Street, Chichester.