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VIRTUAL TOUR: Church Interior

Looking from the baptismal font to the altar

The new church design is a contemporary form reminiscent of early English campus architectural style. The original English Canterbury cathedral in England, and the historical home of our patron saint, with its gabled roof style was also examined in the early planning stages for historical content. The church structure, however, is a contemporary, uplifting solution with slightly Romanesque overtones that utilize various elements from our Christian past in fresh and new “post-modern” ways.

Interior of the church looking from the north to the south across the altar

The main structural frame, or superstructure, is a framed steel truss. Since it is clad on wood, it too is reminiscent of the wood roofing utilized in centuries past, and so prevalent in the cathedrals of our Catholic history. Hidden inside the wood cladding of the trusses are indirect lighting fixtures that provide a dramatic glow to the gabled roof planes. Even the plan of our new multi-functional space, when opened up to full capacity, takes on a cruciform shape. This shape was the primary plan shape design of gothic cathedrals built in Europe over the several hundred years Christianity was taking root there. The “side altars” of the cruciform also double as meeting rooms when the folding partitions are closed.

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