Detail of crucifix. Digital image of D 79287 CN.
SC 713575
Description Detail of crucifix. Digital image of D 79287 CN.
Date 12/10/2000
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 713575
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 79287 CN
Scope and Content Crucifix 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 crucifix sculpture is on the interior wall of the church. The image of the crucified Christ is hand-carved from timber. This figure is set into a cross made from mosaic (tiny squares of glass set into wet plaster). The initials 'I N R I' are set into the top arm of the cross and stand for the Latin; 'Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum' (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews). This crucifix, a large portrait of St Paul, and 14 carved panels representing the Stations of the Cross were executed for the church by the Scottish sculptor Harry Bain. 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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