The Fishermen's Chapel, Saint Brelade, Jersey: Its Archaeology, Architecture, Wall Paintings And Conservation

"The Fishermen's Chapel is one of the best known buildings in the Channel Islands, and every year it is visited by thousands of pilgrims and tourists. It is not a grand or imposing structure but a small granite chapel, perched on the cliff edge above Saint Brelade's Bay. Externally, the Fishermen's Chapel is a plain, rectangular structure with no sign of ornamentation or suggestion of the glory that it holds within. But once inside, the visitor is confronted with an experience of unparalleled delight: the walls and the stone-vaulted ceiling are covered with Old and New Testament scenes, executed in bright coulours. For more than six hundred years these medieval paintings have survived the ravages of time and man, and although they are now far from complete, their impact is nevertheless stunning: the message they conveyed to medieval worshippers is still there to be read today." "Between 1982 and 1988, an integrated programme of research and investigation, conservation and repair, refurbishment and revitalization, took place with an interdisciplinary and internationally recruited team. The results of their findings have now been distilled and are presented in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved