Steeltsown's simple symbolic tented form blends into its sub urban landscape, the western hemlock timber sheeting to the interior gives it a warmth.
Steelstown, County Derry
The church was completed in 1977 for Fr Joe Carlin and the parochial house was added in the late 1980s.
The interior is dominated by the heavy wooden mass of the angled roof, seemingly floating above your head. In a completely different sense to the church in Cresslough, Our Lady of Lourdes resists celebrating any exterior views, and disconnects itself from the outside, with the only windows lining the base of the walls.
Whilst sitting inside the church, any sense of the houses, road, or people outside, are forgotten. The pitched roof, wooden cladding, and dim lighting create a very incubated and inward looking atmosphere.
Londonderry, County Londonderry
Erected in 1830 to the designs of architect John Ferguson, this was the first purpose built Protestant church constructed outside the city walls marking Derry’s northern expansion in the early 19th century.
Derry Ciry, County Derry
Between an elegant Georgian district and the green tranquillity of Brooke Park, stands the Catholic cathedral dedicated to St Eugene in 1873 by Bishop Kelly, to whose memory the glass canopy was built.
Londonderry, County Londonderry
St Augustine's church is known as the 'Wee Church on the Walls' and is thought to be the site of a 6th century monastery.
