About a year ago, I featured 1963’s Paulin Memorial, with an exterior visit.
Earlier this summer I was able to pay a visit and shoot the inside of this one of a kind structure. There is no other building like this anywhere in the city.
Doug Johnson, of the firm Johnson-McWhinnie, who designed the church as well as the earlier attached church hall, told me that this was his personal favourite of all the building he designed.
The building looks to be almost unchanged since the day it opened.
Simply amazing.
And now I’m happy to report, I’m all up to date. I’ve shown all the tours I’ve had sitting on my hard drive that I’ve been meaning to get to. Have a good weekend everyone, see you back on here on Monday.
I like this church and it has great acoustics, I’ve played in it several times! This church is about the only representative of good modernistic design and not a cookie cutter out of the catalogue style that goes for modern architecture in Windsor.
This place has a basement too I believe… which was cool enough to let us hold a concert in a bunch of years ago. I love this building, it looks very nature-y. Did the designer also do Guadalupe Church?
Thanks for shooting this Andrew, it’s simply beautiful, and I never knew it existed. Wish this was on doors open also….
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I got married in this church, and the hippy woman (Wendy I believe her name was) minister came out wearing the coolest Jesus shoes when she presided over the ceremony. Weddings and funerals are the only time I ever set foot in a church, which would probably explain why that marriage didn’t last 😉
I like how open and bright this church is. Most churches are dark and creepy.
This church kind of reminds me of that church I’ve never seen anyone go into thats on the ciociaro club’s property. THAT is one cool building in my humble and honest.
hey mike, i played a concert there a number of years ago! i wonder if it was the same one…..
but….can anyone identify the two creatures that arn’t an angel and an egale in the pic of the wooden cross? some sort of angry feline, and some…..really evil cow????
Aaron, the four Gospel Writers are often depicted as follows: Matthew (Man); Mark (Lion); Luke (Ox) and John (Eagle). Since no one knows what they looked like, these images are used to identify them in the Church.
aaahhhhhh…..well thank you susan!
The church part of the building has been untouched however the northwest side of the building was added on to. If you look in the first picture, the section of the building that jutts out, immediately behind the bell tower is one part that was added on. There was another even larger two floor section added of just to the left of that addition, on the other side of the entrance door. I used to live a couple of blocks down the road near Roselawn. It’s a very nice neighbourhood.