Sonja

Likely it is rather new. Wooden ceilings do not forgive roof leaks and use to go unsightly easy. This always was a poor fillial chapel in a smal village close to a much larger one, never a church with an own parish.

They likely kept a ceiling from shortly after the 1637 burn without propper restaurations and many roof tile accidents in storms and such until one could not distinguish a thing or repair it and inbetween Vatican II came in with its preferance for as boring as possible. Now it looks all neat and fresh, but like they got that from Ikea.

Andy, I assure you, my own livingroom is mostly basic nordic design from durable nude finished beechwood with deco and detail that is very international, colourful and mostly stuff we bought for it's emediate use, gifts by the people we lived at for a time or home made to suit storage needs with boards from the builders market -- no nonsense bought extra to impress the guests but curtains not clashing with anything or looking to cold and sober, the ultimative interrior design challenge -- LOL

Fine Art with big A outside the public space is for those who got a lot spare money and speculate, owning cheap replica of this and that well known or unique folk art around the home can be meaningful, or it can be just cheesy taste or calculated design -- dependant of the way one gets each single piece and how it fits into ther lives.

Now open to the public churches and chapels still owned and used by the big denominations -- to many of us in our educated times they are mostly some interesting public space with old fine art and interesting curiosities, but usually to the comunity and their clergymen they are an extention to the livingroom. No wonder they add utilitarian stuff for matching the newest form of rites, repair and replace stuff as cheaply as possible or if there is more money available than needed there aquire what in the moderne is considered worthy high art with a value in spite of it clashing with stuff already there. This thing simply is a room of a comunity that is in use for around 1000 years and that is now proud of having rediscovered things more than 350 years old and still there, but live goes on around them.

The murals are awesome, but the ceiling, seating, and as well the cheap pult, the horrendous lamps and the easel holding this year's communion kiddie's collage, too is probaply stuff that wont survive an other century.