Detail of the Seventh Station of the Cross by Harry Bain

Description Detail of the Seventh Station of the Cross by Harry Bain

Date 12/10/2000

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

Catalogue Number D 79284 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 713569

Scope and Content Woodcarving of the 7th Station of the Cross, by Harry Bain, St Paul's Roman Catholic Church, 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 a carved wooden plaque fixed to the wall of the church. The sculpture depicts Christ falling a second time beneath the weight of the cross on his way to Golgotha. The plaque is deeply carved with a variety of surface textures worked into the wood, and gilding is used to emphasise Christ's halo. The Stations of the Cross are the 14 places where Christ is said to have halted on his route to Golgotha through the streets of Jerusalem. Most Catholic churches have a series of devotional sculptures or images arranged and numbered around the walls, and special prayers are said at each of these. 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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