1926 – Chapel Of The Passionist Fathers, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh

The community was constructed between 1917 and 1926 with the Chapel of St Gabriel blessed on May 23 1926. Constructed to contain a Novitiate, but that was moved to Scotland, leaving the building too large for their needs. The community has moved out of the original buildings which are now an old peoples residence and into the former farm buildings.

“The new chapel of the Noviciate of the Passionist Order at The Graan, Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh, forms the last section of group of buildings which have been in the course of erection for several years past. The plan of the buildings is in the shape of the letter ‘‘E,’’ the chapel forming one limb, while the space between the two limbs forms an enclosed courtyard. The chapel is a single-aisled structure, with two apsidal ended side chapels, chancel, and _ sacristies, The general treatment of the interior, of collegiate character, is simple; the roof is formed with a plaster barrel vault intersected by minor arches, to afford height to the side windows. The interior joinery work of the chapel is of oak. The walls are panelled throughout to a height of ten feet, In the sanctuary are oak stalls for the religious community. At the west end of the chapel is an organ gallery with curved and panelled oak front, supported on fluted columns, and with oak-panelled entrance porch and screen underneath. The High Altar is of statuary marble, and the frontal or antependium is filled in with a representation of the ‘‘Last Supper.’ The reredos is panelled in Pavonazza and golden yellow Sienna marbles. The altar is covered by a lofty ciborium or baldacchino, supported on columns of verde antique scagliola. The floor of the body of the chapel is finished in green and white marble terrazzo, while the chancel is paved with slabs of varied Italian coloured marbles.”
The Builder, May 13 1927