View from West

Description View from West

Date 12/10/2000

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 79214 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 713626

Scope and Content St Paul's Roman Catholic Church from the west, Warout Road, Glenrothes, Fife St Paul's Church was built 1956-7 to designs by the architectural firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. Jack Coia (1898-1981) was assisted at this time by the architects Isi Metzstein (b.1928) and Andrew McMillan (b.1928). Using a limited budget of £20,000, the church was built of painted brick with a wall of stained glass and wood. The site also includes a presbytery (priest's house). This shows the church with its dramatic white-painted walls set with dark timber and irregularly placed panels of richly coloured glass. A central glazed section with off-centre cross silhouetted against the sky suggests the tower of a traditional church building. The presbytery building in the foreground is lit by a combination of narrow windows near the top of the walls, and conventional square windows below. This building uses the traditional features of an ecclesiastical building such as a tower, stained glass windows and prominent cross, but adapts them into a sculptural, modern building. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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