This is a very neat book. It was published in 1990 by Societe Jersiase and The Rector and Churchwardens of Saint Brelade. The book measures 8 ˝ inches by 10 7/8 inches and contains xviii, 171 pages. The book is in “almost new” condition.

Contents:

List of text-figures
List of colour plates
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Historical Information

- Antiquarian Descriptions of the Fisherman’s Chapel
- Early Topographical Illustrations
- The Restorations of 1877 to 1918
- The Earthquake and its Aftermath, 1926 to 1935
- Deterioration and Rejuvenation, 1972 to 1988

2. A Brief Description of the Chapel

- The Exterior
- The Interior

3. The Wall Paintings

- Loss and Rediscovery
- Subject Matter and Iconography by Gottfried Hauff


Frontispiece – View across Saint Berlade’s Bade, showing the church from the north-east and the restored Fisherman’s Chapel to its immediate left. In the foreground the base of the original circular churchyard is visible, disappearing under the nineteenth-century sea wall.

Excerpt – Dust jacket:
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 colours. 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 ins 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 a n interdisciplinary and internationally recruited team. The results of their findings have now been distilled and are presented in this volume.
End excerpt


Top: General view of the interior of the Fisherman’s Chapel in 1982, looking east, showing the refurbishment of 1935.

Bottom: The south-east corner of the sanctuary in 1982, showing the stone altar and furnishings introduced in 1935.


General view of the exposed masonry of the chancel, after the removal of the 1930s furnishings and concrete floor. In the foreground is the step of Mont Mado granite, both ends of which are deeply embedded in the side walls of the chapel.

Fold-out diagram – the interior of the Fishermen’s Chapel as existing in 1982

Top: Plan at window level, showing areas of reconstructed masonry around all openings, and the blocking of the former west entrance. The positions of sections s7-s10 are marked.

Bottom: Section s7 along the central axis of the chapel, showing building lifts and exposed features in the north wall, and details of the splays of the east and west windows. Note also the skewed chancel arch.


Top: The late medieval cross of Chausey granite on the western gable of the chapel. Probably removed from the church and placed here c. 1884.

Bottom: The early medieval Jersey granite cross on the eastern gable of the chapel; the groove around the upper arm is a fault-line in the rock. The cross probably dates from about the twelfth century.


General view of the interior of the chapel, looking east, during the excavation of the surviving archaeological deposits in front of and under the sanctuary step.

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