The warmth of the wood of the pews together with the stained glass floor-to-ceiling windows give some relief from the bare concrete walls which nonetheless give a certain aura of austere majesty. The altar/table is off the ...

Influenced by the liturgical renewal that later had such an impact on Vatican II the altar/table is indeed a table in appearance.

Left to right: pulpit, altar table, baptismal pool/font. The altar makes but the slightest bow to the Vatican II emphasis on altar as also a table.

Again we see the juxtaposition of the contemporary with the pulpit, freestanding altar/table, and seats for the clergy with the traditional high altar, tabernacle, and crucifix, and completing the visual focus, on the wall ...

The great Communion Table, with its concrete base, is given as sense of majesty and joy by a marble veneer.

Altar table and crucifix as seen from the left of the liturgical center

The modern pews give way to an apparently traditional liturgical center with pulpit, altar/table, baptismal font, and tabernacle for the reserved Host.

In the foreground, one senses the uneven stone work of a sloping floor. To the side are pews which will seat fifty of the rooms capacity of two hundred. In front are the communion rails, on the slightly raised platform of ...

A diminutive lectern/pulpit is to the left of the altar table.

The stand for the Gospel now reveals itself as a lectern, flanked by the pulpit with seating for the clergy. The architect has given consideration to the people who need not focus on the priest during the sermon silhouetted ...