Inside, among faux marble columns and enormous chandeliers, ten animatronic goblins glare at visitors, before looking down again to scratch out numbers with their quills.

Specialist painter and decorators still use this technique to great effect in the world of interior design e.g. faux marble.

Massive plaster columns are painted in a faux marble technique to emulate the red marble and rest on hexagonal brass bases.

On either side of the lateral walls are two built-in confessionals, with doors painted in red and decorative elements in gold, as well as faux marble interiors, framed in shells.