St Francis-Xavier RC Church, Falkirk

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St Francis-Xavier RC Church, Falkirk
St Francis-Xavier RC Church, Falkirk

By A R Conlon (Reginald Fairlie Partnership) 1958-61. 5-bay, rectangular-plan nave and 'saw-toothed' plan sanctuary, Modern church. Striking, highly decorative interior schemes with artwork by Felix McCullough. Main entrance flanked by chapel (originally baptistery) and former mortuary chapel; bays of nave divided by large precast-concrete arches, N (chancel) wall of exposed red brick with many white crosses; Kenton stone altar with six bronze candlesticks designed by Conlon. Chapels in south aisle containing mosaics by the Casa group of Edinburgh; confessionals in north aisle; laminated glass panels above side aisles by Felix McCullough. Continuous stained glass panels to clerestory.

St Francis Xavier RC Church is a finely-detailed, little-altered post-war church designed by the Edinburgh based architect Alexander Ritchie Conlon to replace an earlier church which had been destroyed by fire in 1955. Its modern block design is an unusual application of exposed concrete in church architecture. The distinctive entrance tower is a culmination of leading artistic talent of the day and the building exhibits a fine array of interior decoration, stained glass and figurative sculpture by renowned Scottish artists, such as Elisabeth Dempster's distinctive figurative carvings of the Evangelists to the principal elevation.

The central band of the clerestory gridded windows are laminated glass panels by Felix McCullough, (1964), and depict the 15 mysteries of the Rosary, the last supper and significant events in the history of the Church in Scotland. These glass panels were created by a process described as 'decorative application of automotive safety glass', a new technique at the time. McCullough also created the artwork above the side aisles which depicts the fourteen stations of the Cross.

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Taken on: March 3, 2023
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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkII, f/2.0, 1/50 sec, 12mm (=24mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkII
Lens: OLYMPUS M.12mm F2.0
Aperture: f/2.0
Exposure Time: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length: 12mm (35mm equivalent: 24mm)
ISO: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: On, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Gain Control: High gain up
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.2 (Macintosh)
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