Big French Concrete Churches

[jean]

The Anglicans invented the modern shrine at Walsingham, didn't they? Clever of the Catholics to have discovered somewhere to call their own! It's called the Slipper Chapel or something, isn't it?

I didn't realise there was an Anglican diocese of Leeds. Does that mean Leeds Parish Church is now a Cathedral?

[teamsaint]

In 1850 when a Roman Catholic hierarchy was allowed to be established, it was not allowed for them to take the title of an existing see. Hence Westminster not London, Salford not Manchester, East Anglia not Norwich and Clifton not Bristol. But at at least Southwark, Liverpool and Birmingham the RCs got there first.

And Portsmouth ?

Portsmouth C of E was created out of Winchester in the twentieth century, I think.

[Don Basilio]

The Anglicans invented the modern shrine at Walsingham, didn't they? Clever of the Catholics to have discovered somewhere to call their own! It's called the Slipper Chapel or something, isn't it?

I didn't realise there was an Anglican diocese of Leeds. Does that mean Leeds Parish Church is now a Cathedral?

The C of E diocese of Ripon was officially the diocese of Ripon and Leeds. It has now been amalgamated with Wakefield and Bradford as the diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales with three cathedrals, none of them at Leeds and none of them concrete.

Our Lady herself "invented" Walsingham perhaps. RCs and Anglicans have refounded it on different sites, neither on the original site as it is in the grounds of a small country house.

[jean]

...Our Lady herself "invented" Walsingham perhaps...

I did say 'invented' the modern shrine!

[ardcarp]

the diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales

...not so romantic as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles. It conjures the image of a be-mitred figure, perhaps keeping balance with the aid of his crook, as he bobs between parishes.

[jean]

...not so romantic as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles. It conjures the image of a be-mitred figure, perhaps keeping balance with the aid of his crook, as he bobs between parishes.

Or perhaps this:

Reges Tharsis et insulae munera offerent,
reges Arabum et Saba dona adducent.
Et adorabunt eum omnes reges terrae,
omnes gentes servient ei.

[vinteuil]

...not so romantic as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles..

... or the good old days of the 'Bishop of Fulham and Gibraltar' - in whose diocese lived the Pope. I hope the Bishop of F & G was able to provide appropriate pastoral care....

[Don Basilio]

Getting back to the OP…

It’s not that big, but definitely French, concrete and 1970s is the church of St Jeanne d’Arc in Rouen on the site of the brave peasant girl’s nasty end.

As I remember, it is elliptical in shape and the interior is sunk below ground level. The windows are magnificent C15 from Rouen church destroyed in WW2.

Interior picture:

http://www.justacote.com/photos_entreprises/eglise-saine-jeanne-d-arc-rouen-1366548018.jpg

Exterior:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Rouen_092.JPG/280px-Rouen_092.JPG

And Wikipedia, so it must be true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Joan_of_Arc

[ardcarp]

Thanks for the Sheppard, Jean!

Back to concrete matters, I'd forgotten the truly vast Basilica of St Therese at Lisieux. One could call it an architectural folly, but was built in the first part of the 20th century as a shrine to a local girl (St Therese) not the St Therese.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=construction+of+basilica+st+therese&biw=1280&bih=590&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDkpyI-JDLAhWHLhoKHVQ2CDQQsAQIQQ&dpr=1.5

[vinteuil]

.... the truly vast Basilica of St Therese at Lisieux. One could call it an architectural folly, but was built in the first part of the 20th century as a shrine to a local girl (St Therese) not the St Therese.

... whaddya mean, not the St Therese !!!

she is, after all, a Doctor of the Church...

https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19101997.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_St._Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se,_Lisieux

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[french frank]

not the St Therese.

Do you mean, not St Teresa of Ávila?

[jean]

Who is not any sort of St Thérèse.

[ardcarp]

Do you mean, not St Teresa of Ávila?

Yes that's the one I didn't mean...of Bellini fame.

[vinteuil]

Yes that's the one I didn't mean...of Bellini fame.

... or even Bernini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa

[ Bellini 1459 - 1516 ; St Teresa 1515 - 1582 ]

[ardcarp]

[ Bellini 1459 - 1516 ; St Teresa 1515 - 1582 ]

Just possible then.

But oh dear, silly me. I won't correct the OP. It may cause a chuckle.