Wednesday, October 13, 2004 AD
A Catholic taste in architecture
Having sorted out the English-language liturgy (see previous post), perhaps the Pope could now move on to issuing an encyclical about Roman Catholic architecture, especially since the Second World War. Alice Thomas Ellis once claimed that the easiest way to find the Roman Catholic church in any English town was to stop a random passerby and ask them to direct you to the ugliest building in town. Sad to say, she wasn't far wrong - the rule certainly held good for the Roman Catholic church at which my wife's grandfather's funeral took place on Monday.
(Though whether a member of the ELCE is in any position to throw stones, I'll leave you to judge, by browsing through the photographs in our church directory).
Here's one honourable exception to that rule, though: the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool (a.k.a. "Paddy's Wigwam", a.k.a. "the Mersey Funnel"). I love this building:
Click here for a virtual tour of this wonderful (if slightly jerry-built - they ended up having to sue the architects over the leaking roof) cathedral.
(Though whether a member of the ELCE is in any position to throw stones, I'll leave you to judge, by browsing through the photographs in our church directory).
Here's one honourable exception to that rule, though: the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool (a.k.a. "Paddy's Wigwam", a.k.a. "the Mersey Funnel"). I love this building:
Click here for a virtual tour of this wonderful (if slightly jerry-built - they ended up having to sue the architects over the leaking roof) cathedral.
