THE FOUNDATION WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2014  HAS BEEN ENGAGED 

IN SEVERAL PROJECTS. 

THE VO HAS ORGANISED COURSES

AND ESTABLISHED A CONSERVATION LAB 

FOR MAINTENANCE OF ARTEFACTS. 

THE FOUNDATION WAS ASSISTED

THROUGH EU AND GOVERNMENT FUNDS

FOR THE RESTORATION OF THER PRIORY

AND THE CHURCH. IT HAS ALSO

RECEIVED SUPPORT AND GRANTS FOR:

(1) THE RESTORATION OF THE CUPOLAS,

(2)THE RESTORATION OF CRITICAL ASSETS, 

(3)WHICH MAKE PART OF THE COLLECTION.

IN HOUSE CONSERVATION WORK

FOCUSED ON;

(A)THE DIGITISING OF THE INVENTORY,

(B)THE DIGITISING OF THE MUSIC ARCHIVE.

THE MOST EXTENSIVE PROJECT IS SCOPE

WHICH INCLUDES THE RESTORATION AND

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE PRIORY INTO

A COMMUNIUTY INTERPRETATION CENTRE.

MORE ON SCOPE....

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Arts & Culture Victoria © 2021/2002

Designed and developed:

Heritage Enterprise Consultancy 

Arts & Culture Victoria © 2021/2002

RESTORING THE RECESSED ALTAR

The current restoration is directed to the centralised Chapel dedicated to  Our Lady of Safe Haven (?) with a recessed frescoed altar. The decoration is an enhancement of the architectural motifs and grammar with bases, capitals and pilasters, heavy cornices and cartouche designs. The whole is a trompe l’oeil with a typical marbeling effect. The system may be a Late Mannerist intervention. The recessed altar was blocked off and in 2018 was discovered through restoration works on the then Music Archive. The recessed altar is a contrast to the more classical centralised chapel with simple leathery ribs over the ceiling. This may have been a private chapel with a view onto the Church transept to follow services internally.