Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Part II

ARCHITECTURE

Turning to architecture, we shall review again some examples we have already shown in the not so recent past.

In addition to these, four other examples from L’Art d’Eglise:

ALTARS

Here is an example, also from L’Art d’Eglise, which shows an altar from this period which also bears the “three marks” of continuity, beauty and dignity:

(I would note that the tendency toward short candlesticks, tabernacles and the like is, I think, more often that not unsuccessful, but our focus here is the altar itself.)

I should also like to point out the high altar of the Abbey of Le Barroux: