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Our Lady of Fatima
Heritage Open Day: The opportunity to visit this unique Roman Catholic church in Harlow. Designed in 1953/54 by Gerard Goalen, who had been recommended by Frederick Gibberd. Windows created at Buckfast Abbey by Dom Charles Norris using the dalle de verre technique Our Lady of Fatima church was designed in the Catholic Modernist Movement with a model of the new church exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1956. It is Grade II* listed and is capable of holding 500 parishioners, with potential seating for a further 500 in the porches and has a free standing main altar. About 60% of the building is stained glass windows with the glass set in concrete - the first major use of this technique in England. They depict the story of Fatima, the mysteries of the rosary and the story of the ancestors of Jesus, shown by the Tree of Jesse.
Monday 15 September
Our Lady of Fatima Church, Howard Way, Harlow, Essex CM20 2NS
Mon 15 Sep:10.00; 10.30; 11.00; 11.30; ; Free Entry.
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