Italian Chapel
Lamb Holm, Orkney, Scotland KW17 - Scotland, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1856 781279
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This magnificent chapel interior is actually the interior of two Nissan huts. In the Second World War, Italian prisoners of war who were housed on Orkney to build the Churchill Barrier, requested permission from the camp commander Major Buckland to build a Catholic chapel. The interior of the Nissan huts was lined with plasterboard which was then painted by one of the prisoners, Domenico Chiochetti. The rest of the chapel was constructed from what ever came to hand – for instance the alter is concrete, and the rood screen made from scrap metal.
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