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The chapel at Churchill College came after a long battle between Christians and atheists, who claimed an institution of science and technology should not have a sacred building. Nobel Prize-winner Francis Crick resigned in protest of the building’s construction. Richard Sheppard’s design was built in 1967.
He placed it isolated, far in the back, with a brutalist look that matches the rest of the college but doesn’t suggest a church. Concrete dominates this Byzantine basilica layout. Vertical shafts of stained glass light the brick interior and plain skylights shine through the wood roof. Bare, withdrawn, and conflicted, this building epitomizes the ‘Liturgical Revolution.’ |
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