Restoration Work

Yesterday I showed you some of the ethereal photographs I took of the church restoration.  Today I will show you some of the more straightforward images of the church and the work going on.  This view is interesting because of the missing stained glass in two of the windows.  All the walls visible have already been painted.

This is a view of the altar, with scaffolding in the archway.  Up on the scaffolding is a painter who is using a stencil to apply a design on to the recently painted arch.

This is one of a series of fourteen relief sculptures called "Stations of the Cross" which are arranged on the walls around the church.  Originally, there was just a blue background behind the figures, and the buildings that you can see that are gray, were painted blue as well.  So these have all been carefully repainted, and are quite beautiful.

This is a wooden cross painted gold, one of fourteen,  and there is one of these on top of the arch of each of the stations of the cross.  They have been freshly painted and await being reinstalled on the walls.

These are some of the arches which have been repainted, as well as the columns, and you can see the stenciling which has been applied to undersides of the arches.