Gerard Thomas Goalen was a British architect who specialised in church architecture and was influenced by continental models and the Liturgical Movement.
16 Facts About Gerard Goalen
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Gerard Goalen was one of the most important architects of the Catholic Modernist movement in the United Kingdom during the 20th century.
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Gerard Goalen attended Douai School before going on to study at the University of Liverpool's School of Architecture, where he produced a final year thesis project on a modern pilgrimage church.
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Gerard Goalen is regarded as one of the key British architects of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Movement in the UK that resulted in a large number of new modernist RC churches being built, and other churches being reordered.
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Gerard Goalen is seen as an influential Modernist and four of his churches are now listed:.
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Gerard Goalen was recommended for the job by his boss at Harlow New Town Development, Frederick Gibberd.
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Gerard Goalen designed the tabernacle and high altar candlesticks and cross.
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Gerard Goalen designed it in a modern style and won an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1966.
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The dalle de verre stained glass is by Patrick Reyntiens, who Gerard Goalen had previously worked with at Our Lady of Fatima, Harlow.
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Proctor notes: "Martin Gerard Goalen told me that his father found [the parish priest] Dayer the perfect client and that he regarded this church as his best church and I would not disagree".
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Gerard Goalen built the adjoining two-storey presbytery and a two-storey community centre.
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Gerard Goalen removed the north wall and extended in that direction.
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In 1966 Gerard Goalen completed the sanctuary, which was built as part of the contract for the new friary buildings.
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Gerard Goalen's design survives relatively intact, with only minor changes in layout.
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Gerard Goalen designed the chaplaincy as an addition to the Cambridge University Catholic Chaplaincy's headquarters, Fisher House.
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In 1965 Gerard Goalen designed a new parish hall for land to the rear of St Joseph and the English Martyrs, Bishop's Stortford.