Cumbernauld, St Mungo's Church. Photographic copy of interior perspective views looking North and West. Titled: 'St Mungo's Church: Cumbernauld'. Stamped: 'Alan Reiach and Partners, 22 Ainslie Plac ...
E 21560 P
Description Cumbernauld, St Mungo's Church. Photographic copy of interior perspective views looking North and West. Titled: 'St Mungo's Church: Cumbernauld'. Stamped: 'Alan Reiach and Partners, 22 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh'. Signed: 'AR'.
Date 2/8/1962
Collection Papers of Alan Reiach, architect, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number E 21560 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of AR 22/4
Copies SC 778103
Scope and Content Photographic copy of interior perspective views looking north and west, St Mungo's Church, St Mungo's Road, North Lanarkshire This shows two views of the interior of the church drawn in ink for presentation to a client. The sloping roof covers rows of simple wooden pews, and the nave area is lit by a clerestory roof. The interior is faced with brick and varnished wood creating a large open and airy space for worship around a central timber font, lectern, pulpit and communion table on a raised plinth. Alan Reiach was born in London, but moved to Edinburgh at the age of eleven where he attended Edinburgh Academy. He was apprenticed to architect Sir Robert Lorimer (1864-1929) in 1928, and attended Edinburgh College of Art where he qualified as an architect in 1931 after winning many student awards. He then travelled extensively before working in London for Robert Atkinson & Partners and Grey Worman. Reiach set up his own practice in Edinburgh in 1939 and remained active until he retired in 1975. His striking Modernist designs were part of his vision of an 'Edinburgh of the future, a glittering spectacle of steel, glass and concrete'. St Mungo's Church was built on a small hill in the centre of Cumbernauld between 1963 and 1964 to designs by architect Alan Reiach (1910-92). The striking exterior of this single-storeyed, square plan church features a copper pyramidal roof with belfry, two linked halls, and a steel cross to the south. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Photograph
External Reference DC22512
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