Monday, June 14
First Christian Science Church, Berkeley, a gem of the Arts-and-Crafts style. If Arts-and-Crafts are good enough for Erik Keilholtz, they're good enough for you.
Church Architecture Round-Up
Everyone's favorite Pastoral Provision parish, Our Lady of the Atonement (as opposed to everyone's favorite other Pastoral Provision parish, Our Lady of Walsingham), unveils a gargantuan neo-Gothic expansion to the church and school. As a fan of both Gothic and the Catholic Anglican Use, I congratulate them on their architectural chutzpah, to use a word one doesn't usually associate with England, unless one is a British Israelist...
The Abbey of New Clairvaux is rebuilding an ancient Spanish monastery, Santa Maria de Ovila, dis-assembled and shipped to California (and then prompty abandoned) by William Randolph Hearst. Think of it as a gigantic sacred three-dimensional puzzle...made of very heavy stones. Or the Do-It-Yourself Project from Purgatory. When finished, this new abbey will be, in one of those bizarre quirks of fate, the oldest freestanding building in the U.S.A.
Erik rhapsodizes about his imagined alternative design to the nuclear-reactor Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland, causing the Irish Elk to post on the delicate Arts-and-Crafts churches of turn of the century California. Since one of these (see above) is a Christian Science church, this is me being Ecumenical.
Speaking of Ecumenism, have a gander at the picture galleries of ueber-High Anglican St. Mary's in Bourne Street, London, and drool excessively.
And, lastly, touching back on Oakland Cathedral, fix your eyes on ND grad Domiane Forte's equally wonderful Spanish baroque alternate design to replace the yet-unbuilt modernist monstrosity. [NB: Link fixed.]
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