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...nonetheless provides both Catholics and architects with occasion for rejoicing. The winning design was selected in 1960 by a committee headed by Liverpool's archbishop, John Cardinal Heenan (now Archbishop of Westminster in London), from among 300 submitted. It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow...
...never build things unless there is some reason for them," says Gibberd. The new cathedral's shape derived from the emphasis on the high altar, visible to the congregation from all sides. This dictated a cathedral-in-the-round, with 2,000 worshipers seated no more than 80 feet from the altar. He surrounded his circular nave with 16 individually shaped satellite chapels and anterooms, each set off from the next by 1-in.-thick blue stained-glass panels, extended a piazza to roof over an English Wrenaissance crypt built in the 1930s, and made the lower level...
Apostles' Bells. Gibberd hit upon the idea of placing a tower directly over the altar's baldachin (or canopy) and using it to light the cathedral because "it's all part of the same thing." To be sure, the idea of having a 2,000-ton tower suspended over space presented structural problems, but these, as Gibberd put it, can be solved "if you get a lot of chaps together with some real know-how." Prestressed concrete was used for the 16 radial buttresses, while the roof was prefabricated from huge slabs of concrete hauled into place...
...Oxford group are A. H. Smith, warden of New College, Oxford; M. Platnauer, vice-president and fellow of Brasenose College: N. H. K. Coghill, fellow of Exeter College: T. H. Keeley, fellow of Wadham College: H. B. Moore, Brasenose, College secretary; and F. Gibberd, architect...
...Unitarian. Lawyer Taft is a pious Episcopalian like his mother. Last March he helped work up an "Everyman's Offering" campaign for his bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson. By last week the Offering had become nationwide, with Lawyer Taft as its chairman and Eric Gibberd, a onetime department store executive (Abraham & Straus, Inc. in Brooklyn, Mably & Carew in Cincinnati), as its executive secretary. The Offering is working with posters, stickers, pamphlets, nationwide publicity, and a tabloid Hold the Line News. No diocesan or parish quotas are set. First 100% offering reported: from St. Andrew's Mission...
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