Tucked away in the unassuming seaside county of Sussex, England—a place better known for tea shops and the occasional inclement gust of wind—sits what may well be one of the most extraordinary things you never knew you needed to see: a full-sized, hand-painted replica of the Sistine Chapel.

Now, it’s not precisely full-sized—it’s about two-thirds of the original, but unless you carry a tape measure around the Vatican, you’d hardly notice. What you will notice is that someone, specifically a chap named Gary Bevans, decided sometime in the late 1980s that what this modest corner of England needed was its own slice of Renaissance grandeur. And rather than suggest it at a parish meeting and move on with his life like a normal person, Gary picked up a brush and started painting. For five and a half years.

The result? A ceiling that looks so uncannily like Michelangelo’s.