This chapel hosts the titular statue of St George which is kept in a niche inlaid with gold mosaic. The statue was carved from the trunk of a tree, in 1838, by Valletta-based sculptor Pietru Pawl Azzopardi. This is the first titular statue of Gozo and it inaugurated the custom of having a processional statue in every village of the island. After 1850, in fact, every parish of Gozo followed in the steps of St George’s and commissioned its respective titular statue. As a result every parish began to organise its own festa. St George’s traditional festa, including both internal and external celebrations, climaxes on the third Sunday of July.
Facing the statue of the patron saint, there is another statue, also carved in wood, made in 1996 by Gozitan sculptor Alfred Camilleri Cauchi – another donation to St George’s Basilica. It represents the Risen Christ and is carried in procession on Easter Sunday.
The chapel also hosts a large canvas, by portraitist Raymond Pitrè in 2003, showing the first Maltese canonised saint Dun Ġorġ Preca, who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine in the early twentieth century.












