Clifton Cathedral
The Cathedral of Clifton ( Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul ) in Bristol, Clifton District, is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton. The modern concrete building was built in 1972/73 as a substitute for the Holy Apostles Prokathedrale. The plans were designed by the architect Percy Thomas Partnership Community.
History
After Catholic Emancipation in the United Kingdom, the construction of a large-scale church was 1830 in Bristol Clifton taken in the style of a Greco- Roman temple in attack. However, the company failed because of the unstable base and inadequate foundations. 1846 Charles Hansom, brother of Joseph Hansom, commissioned to design a more modest church with wooden pillars, arches and roof. This Apostle Church was completed in 1848 and was elevated to cathedral in the establishment of the Diocese of Clifton in the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850. It was regarded as temporary, even after it to a porch with decorative facade in the style of the Italian Romanesque had been extended in 1870 also by Charles Hansom. Local church and diocese grew by immigration of Catholic Irish, Poles and Americans. In the 1960s, plans for a complete renovation and contemporary reorganization of the Apostle Cathedral began. The work should be found with the dedication still outstanding graduate. However, the calculated costs were high and the instability of the ground made remains a concern. A fundraiser several Catholic businessmen then enabled the construction of a new cathedral not far from the Prokathedrale in modern, inspired by the Second Vatican Council forms. It was consecrated to their Patron Saint Peter and Paul, June 29, 1973 by the Apostolic Delegate Domenico Enrici, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Heenan and the Bishop of Clifton Joseph Rudderham in the presence of many other bishops.
Architecture and Facilities
The St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral is built on the plan of a protracted hexagon. This is located on the eastern long side which is also hexagonal altar island with the Cathedra, around which is grouped on three sides of the pews. It is home to 1000 people. The concrete is mixed inside with Portland sand, which amplifies its light reflectivity. Above the altar, the roof is hexagonal increases and forms a point, which continues in three concrete struts with inserted cross. The Sacrament chapel is the altar, and at the same time for prayer by a deal on the outer wall accessible, on which the front and the Lady Chapel is next with an ornate candlestick victims. Light passes through a stained glass window surface with peony motifs as well as through clear glass ribbon windows in a roof. A separate hexagonal lantern illuminates the baptismal font from above.
Noteworthy are the 14 relief panels of the Cross by William Mitchell. The original illustrations are different from the classic Stations of the Cross. You start with the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and ends with the breaking of bread at Emmaus of the Risen One.
The organ was built in 1973 by the Austrian company Rieger. The instrument has 26 registers on three manuals and pedal. The tracker action are mechanical.