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Detail of Tabernacle. Digital image of D 79288 CN

SC 713560

Description Detail of Tabernacle. Digital image of D 79288 CN

Date 12/10/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 713560

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 79288 CN

Scope and Content Tabernacle, 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 the tabernacle, a pyramid-shaped cupboard for storing the bread and wine used in Holy Communion. It rests on a large white block on the altar, flanked by flower arrangements in copper vases, and next to a small lectern (stand for a Bible). Red carpet covers the altar steps. The unusual shape of this tabernacle relates to the symbolism of the triangle as representing the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost). The simple, sculptural form of the shining pyramid on its white base suits the open, bright and welcoming Modern style of the Church. 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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