There’s an English church with the Sistine Chapel painted onto its ceiling
Down on the south coast is a church with a remarkable and from the outside, totally unexpected interior — the only known handpainted replica of the Sistine Chapel.This is the English Martyrs’ Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea in West Sussex, and this remarkable ceiling is the work of one man who took over 5 years to complete the ceiling, working on his own mainly in the evenings.
The ceiling was painted by Gary Bevans, a signwriter who took a trip to Rome in 1987, and on his return wa
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