View of glazed wall from North East.
SC 713594
Description View of glazed wall from North East.
Date 12/10/2000
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 713594
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 79236 CN
Scope and Content Glazed wall from the north-east, 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 glazed wall from within the church, with the entrance doors and Holy water stoup seen at the far left. The wall is divided up into a variety of panels which are filled with coloured and moulded glass. The sunlight shining through the glass casts coloured patterns onto the white-painted brickwork of the interior. Stained glass has long been associated with the decoration of places of worship. Traditionally, small pieces of coloured glass are fixed together with lead strips to form pictures illustrating Biblical stories. In this Modern church, however, the colours and lighting effects produced by simple panels alone are used to create a welcoming space for worship. 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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