ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

It is a one-wall framework building, consisting of several frameworks with a gallery and a porch in front of the entrance. Sts. Peter and Paul Chapel’s structure displays a parallelepiped with the porch covered with a double-sloping roof laid on the ledgers. There is a separate double-sloping roof borne by carved posts. The roof ridge of Sts. Peter and Paul Chapel is crowned with eight-pointed cross standing on a tent-like foundation (so-called ‘apple’). The Chapel walls have log eaves at the top.

Porch rail is blind between the posts and is made of planks. Roofing above St. Peter and Paul Chapel is nailed, planked, and has a lance-like top. The door and the window on the southern facade have three jambs, which are rabbet joint. The walls of Sts. Peter and Paul Chapel are fixed according to the traditional method with the logs’ ends protruding from the edges of the walls in the corners( ‘v oblo’), and logs above the porch are mitered.

The walls of the shed above the gallery rest on four carved posts. Two side posts are octahedral and have two waists; central posts are tetrahedral and have one waist. Porch roof is borne by two wooden square posts carved at the top. Fascia boards covering the gallery and the porch are rectangular along the edges. Their plane has carved edges decorated with square pierced-through holes.

The interior of the Chapel has not remained.