The Chapel of the Non Believers: An Atheist Arboretum for Mitford Part 1 Project 2021 Lee Thackray Northumbria University Newcastle | UK In our increasingly secular society, detached from death, the use of the Crematoria as an efficient form of corpse reduction has resulted in a disconnection between life, death and the poignancy of passing.Once fulfilled by religion and religious ceremony, Atheism has struggled to reconciliate two very different programmes, the disposal of a body and the celebration of a life.The Mitford Arboretum and Chapel provide an Atheist ceremony which uses the existing ancient helical pathway leading up to the centre of Mitford Ruins. The Journey provides a poignant funeral procession through the undulating Northumbrian Landscape.An Arboretum Glasshouse is positioned as an insertion in the centre of Mitford ruins and functions as a Tree Nursery from which a Tree Sapling is selected by the bereaved family. The return journey culminates in the planting of the Sapling which represents a Memorial Tree honouring the memory of the deceased.The Renders and Serial Vision follow a Young Girl, her Teddy, and her Father on a poignant Journey to celebrate the life of a lost Friend. Tutor(s) Lesley McIntyre