Detail of altar cross by Benno Schotz. Digital image of D 79268 CN.

Description Detail of altar cross by Benno Schotz. Digital image of D 79268 CN.

Date 12/10/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 713603

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 79268 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 shows the sculptured crucifix above the main altar in the church. The sculpture shows Christ on the cross flanked by the figures of the Virgin Mary and St John. Various symbolic objects from the Crucifixion story are placed around the main figures, and gilded to emphasise their importance. The sculptor Benno Schotz (1891-1984) worked on several churches by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, including a set of The Stations of The Cross for St Charles' Roman Catholic Church in Kelvinside, Glasgow. The artist worked in bronze, plaster and stone, and on occasion 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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