St Brigid's church has disappeared under a cloak of scaffolding this week. Over the years since it was opened in the early sixties the rendering on the outside walls has deteriorated, as has all the woodwork in the fascias, soffits, downpipes etc. Over the last months we have been negotiating the diocesan financial apparatus to get out some of our money to get the work done. As so often with the archdiocese, you take months to get the agreement - and then the job itself happens superfast! I was told on Monday that it will take about three months, which was longer than I thought, but as a veteran of building a hall from scratch at St Francis, turning a hall into a church at St Clare's, doing up the hall at St Cadoc's etc, I'm not fazed... 
People have various opinions about moderrn architecture. Not everyone likes St Brigid's for example. Some wag did suggest that actually the scaffolding was an improvement - and in terms of modern architecture I suppose St Brigid's does now look rather like the Pompadour Centre in Paris, that amazing Museum with all its services on the outside. Come to think of it, what do our readers think of our three churches as architecture and as places of worship?
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