Detail of altar cross by Benno Schotz. Digital image of D 79266 CN.

Description Detail of altar cross by Benno Schotz. Digital image of D 79266 CN.

Date 12/10/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 713572

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 79266 CN

Scope and Content Altar crucifix by Benno Schotz, 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 sculptured metal cross is situated above the main altar, with plaster figures of the crucified Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and St John. At the foot of the cross are figures of the Virgin holding the body of Christ, a group which is known as a 'Pietà'. Various symbolic objects from the crucifixion story are placed around the figures, and gilded to emphasize their importance. The sculptor Benno Schotz (1891-1984) worked on several churches by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, using the mediums of bronze, plaster and stone. On occasion he used the architect Jack Coia and his daughter as models. 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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