Trustees make Monnaie Chapel more user friendly
THE trustees of Les Monnaie are hoping to create a wheelchair user friendly path in a field adjacent to the chapel.
In a letter accompanying a planning application, The Monnaie Fellowship Trust LBG chairman Nick Drake said the trust had recently invested much of its resources in providing new handrails and access ramps to the chapel and its meeting room for the benefit of wheelchair users.
‘We have also planted 50 or so oak trees around the perimeter of our adjacent field as memorials to those who have died over the past 10 years,’ he said.
‘Our hope is to provide a wheelchair friendly pathway, enabling chapel visitors to view their family’s memorial tree and for other elderly disabled visitors to be pushed along the northern boundary to enjoy views of Talbot Valley and neighbouring pond.’
The path, which would be laid on the northern and eastern boundaries of the field, which is to the west of the chapel, would be one-metre wide and consist of a recycled hardcore base finished with granite sand, similar to paths on the island’s west coast.
The Chapel of Christ the Healer, known as the Monnaie Chapel because of its location at Rue du Monnaie, St Andrew’s, is a centre for the Christian healing ministry in Guernsey.
Services are held there every Sunday and Wednesday.
