View of interior from North West. Digital image of D 79226 CN.

Description View of interior from North West. Digital image of D 79226 CN.

Date 12/10/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 713579

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 79226 CN

Scope and Content St Paul's Roman Catholic Church from the north-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 interior of the church with rows of pews made of varnished timber, a design feature which is echoed in the timber-clad ceiling above. The main altar (left) has a golden pyramid-shaped tabernacle (cupboard for storing the bread and wine used in communion) while the crucifix above is backed by a cross-shaped raised feature on the white wall. A separate altar to the Virgin Mary can be seen centre right. The bright, open aspect of this church was to become the model for many other modern ecclesiastical buildings. Wedge-shaped in plan, the building was designed to symbolise the gospel (word of God) spreading out into the world. 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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