STRANGE CHURCH
NOVEL BUILDING IN LONDON. The strangest church in London is now almost finished. It is St. Saviour s at Eltham, and when it is consecrated it will be the most- modern church in Britain. It has a concrete altar and font in modern design, and a floodlighting system in the roof, There is a figure of the Christ carved in concrete over the altar, and the ceiling of white and green glass, when finished, will sparkle like diamonds. The long, narrow glass windows of blue and yellow in the sanctuary, the conciete. piilars, and sharply defined brickwork. are severely simple.
-. . “Like everything that is new and ■strange. Ve have earned a great ded lot criticism,” the Rev. G. H. Isaacson, the vicar, said recently. “Some people pays that the building looks like a prison, others that it is a castle, or a, cinema. They think it is gaunt, and lacks dignity—that-there is no air of saindtiity. But a (."hurch built to-day should iDepresent to-day. It should not be a relic of medialvalism, or of Viotorfrnism. It is a living thing, and should be expressed dn living architecture.” The church ha B taken less than n year to build, it seals 500 people, and it has cost less than £IO,OOO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19330726.2.73
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
211STRANGE CHURCH Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in