The Italian Chapel, Lamb Home, Orkney The story behind the construction of this isolated chapel is fascinating enough – it was built on Lamb Home during the Second World War by Italian prisoners-of-war sent to work on the so-called Churchill Barriers to the east of Scapa Flow – but even without that narrative the building itself would stand as a thing of beauty in its own right. Begun in 1943 and not properly finished until after the war ended, it was constructed from two Nissen huts joined end to end, plastered on the inside and then decorated with ornate frescoes. Restored twice, in the 1960s and again in the 1990s, it is now an A-listed building and, in happier times, a popular tourist draw.