Chapel of Panagia tou Kampou (of the fields)

Services: Feast days of the Mother of God and on Tuesday of diakainisimos (Bright Week)

The chapel of Panagia tou Kampou is an early variation of a hexastyle church belonging to the type of the compressed cross-in-square with a dome, dating to the beginning of the 11th century, and is the evolution of an older monument with three earlier phases. It has a total length of 13.20 m, of which 4.20 m is the length of the narthex added in the 15th-16th century. At the same period was added the atrium to the west and an olive press on its north-west side, both related to the Order of saint John, which owned a tower in the same area. The painted decoration of the church date to the last phases of the church, i.e. in the 12th and 16th centuries.

The initial phase of the church dates back to the end of the 6th-beginning of the 7th century and is a three-aisled transitional basilica with annexes, the length of which exceeds 17.90 m, and a width of 13 m with inscribed lateral conchs. A burial site, related to the church, was found further south, while a small four-sided baptistery with a circular pool was found to the east.

During the period of the Arab invasions, the chapel was downsized to the width of the central nave utilizing, with a small alteration, the existing conch, which was reconstructed shortly before it was abandoned. For the walls of the diavatika (vaulted passages in Greek) large slabs were used. The chapel is a listed monument (Table B). Services are taking place at the chapel on the feast days of the Mother of God and on Tuesday of diakainisimos (Bright Week in Greek).

EXTERIOR