The smallest chapel in the world celebrates its centenary this year. Guernsey’s ‘Little Chapel’ is just 9ft long by 5ft wide.
Holding just a few people at time, it is one of the island’s most visited attractions and its walls are made up of thousands of fragments of china, seashells and pebbles.
Brother Deodat, an exiled French monk, started building the Little Chapel in December 1913, to emulate the sacred grotto at Lourdes. Three versions of the chapel have been built altogether; the first demolished by Deodat himself following criticism and the second destroyed when the Bishop of Portsmouth could not pass through the doorway. The third version, which was officially finished in July 1914, is the one we see today.
The chapel is free to visit. See thelittlechapel.org
Just 15 minutes from the Little Chapel is the 4* Farmhouse Hotel, a 14-bedroom property in a restored 15th century farmhouse at St Saviours.
Double rooms cost from £125 per night, B&B. Price includes car hire and handmade chocolates.
Flights to Guernsey from London Gatwick start from £84 return with aurigny.com.
