Italian Chapel, Lamb Holm

Name: Italian Chapel
Address: Lamb Holm, Lamb Holm, KW17 2RT, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1856 781580

#1 among attractions in Lamb Holm

Top attraction, Art museum, Church, Vernacular architecture

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Facts and practical information

The Italian Chapel is a highly ornate Catholic chapel on Lamb Holm in the Orkney Islands. It was built during World War II by Italian prisoners of war, who were housed on the previously uninhabited island while they constructed the Churchill Barriers to the east of Scapa Flow. Only the concrete foundations of the other buildings of the prisoner-of-war camp survive. The chapel was not completed until after the end of the war, and was restored in the 1960s and again in the 1990s. It is a popular tourist attraction, and a category A listed building. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 58°53'24"N, 2°53'22"W

Address

Lamb HolmLamb Holm KW17 2RT United Kingdom

Contact

+44 1856 781580

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Day trips

Italian Chapel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Loch of Tankerness, Scapa distillery, Mine Howe, Burray.

5.7 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch of Tankerness, Mainland
145 min walk • Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east.
6.1 miNW
Distillery, Whiskey distillery
Scapa distillery, Kirkwall
157 min walk • Scapa distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on The Mainland of Orkney, Scotland on the shore of Scapa Flow near the town of Kirkwall. Scapa is the second-northernmost whisky distillery in Scotland, 1⁄2 mile south of the Highland Park Distillery.
3.7 miN
Archaeological site
Mine Howe, Mainland
96 min walk • Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney.
3.3 miS
Island
Burray
85 min walk • Burray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It lies to the east of Scapa Flow and is one of a chain of islands linked by the Churchill Barriers.
4.1 miSW
Island
Hunda
105 min walk • Hunda is an uninhabited island in the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is 100 hectares in extent and rises to 42 metres above sea level.
1.2 miW
Memorial
Broch of Ayre, Mainland
31 min walk • Broch of Ayre, also known as St. Mary's Broch, is an Iron Age broch in Orkney, Scotland.
1.3 miSW
Island
Glims Holm
32 min walk • Glimps Holm or Glims Holm is a small uninhabited islet in Orkney, Scotland.
5.3 miSW
58°49'18"N • 2°57'19"W
South Ronaldsay & Burray Agricultural Society, South Ronaldsay
135 min walk • Memorial