church building
Features
The church, built in 1964, is octagonal in shape and covered by a single span of concrete forming a dome. The height at the centre of the nave is 35 feet, the width, from East to West, is 93 feet, slightly longer that from North to South, which is 75 feet. The tower is 102 feet high to the top of the cross.
The East Window is impressive and dramatic in size, occupying the whole East wall.
Designed, as are all the windows in the church, by Tristan Ruhlmann, from Alsace, France, it 
is based on the text from St. John’s Gospel of the risen Jesus telling St. Peter ‘Feed my sheep’. It is of a unique design developed by Ruhlmann which involves setting pieces of stained glass in concrete panels.
The twelve carpet windows. These windows depict ancient prayer mats as were hung up in open windows in early churches, and are also based on Islamic designs from Turkey. They have slig
htly wavy edges to symbolise movement in the wind.
Lady Chapel Window. Depicting the Nativity of Jesus Christ in the Bethlehem stable this window was dedicated on October 24th 1970 by the then new Bishop of Birmingham the Right Rev. Lawrence Brown.
For more about Ruhlmann’s work see:
http://renaissancesolignac.voila.net/patrimoine/ruhlmann_fichiers/ruhlmann.htm
The Font. This was built by a local stonemason and is in an unusual triangular shape as a sign of the Trinity: God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The copper cover was made in the metalwork class by staff and pupils of Pitmaston Secondary School and presented to the church.
