As promised the new font and altar have arrived, just in time for Christmas!
Showing posts with label renovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label renovation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wood for New Altar
A group from the Building Renovation Team along with artist
Julie Speidel went to O.B. Williams in Seattle where the new altar wood is
being finished. We got to see the slab of Walnut before final work on
it.
The slab is now just shy of 6 inches thick has come through the
curing process well (it was drying in a kiln for 5 months!). The team at
O.B. Williams said it was the thickest piece of walnut they have ever worked
with.
The slab is now just shy of 6 inches thick has come through the
curing process well (it was drying in a kiln for 5 months!). The team at
O.B. Williams said it was the thickest piece of walnut they have ever worked
with.
The portion to be carved out for the bronze reliquary box
will be about 5 inches by 14 inches so we will have a roomy space for Gregory
the Great and some of the ashes of Father Ralph Carskadden.
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| Mother Melissa Skelton at O.B. Williams |
Sidewalk and entry slab pour
Attached are a few pictures of last week’s sidewalk and entry slab pour. This week we will begin erecting steel at the front entrance, as well as start the wood framing for the interior walls, which will also initiate the electrical and plumbing rough in. Enjoy the pics!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Building Renovation Continues
Hello everyone
Progress on the building renovation is visible these days: equipment digging up the old sidewalk in the front of the church, wood and carpet samples in the nave, more and more of the old windows removed, and the beginning outline of our new expanded entryway in progress. In the meantime our liturgies in the parish hall continue in vibrancy and numbers.Some building renovation progress highlights for you:
- After much conversation, the City decided that they could trim the roots back on our trees, work with us on safe sidewalks and retain the current trees we have at the front of the church.
- The fabrication of the font is complete. All that the Julie Speidel's workshop now needs to do is to add the patina.
- The wood slab for the new altar is either en route or in Seattle as I write this. Once in Seattle it will be finished off and Julie will see how thick it is so that she can adjust her work on the altar base so that we achieve the proper height for the overall altar.
- Julie has generously agreed to design and donate new candlesticks and a new Paschal Candle stand that will work harmoniously with our new altar.
- .I've begun some conversations with Julie about helping us with our new tabernacle (the idea being to have a wall-hung piece for this).
I'll send you more information as it becomes available.
Please continue to pray for those working on the renovation and for St. Paul's during this important time of transition and renewal.
In Christ,
Melissa+
Friday, August 19, 2011
St. Paul's Building Renovation Update: August 19
Greetings, everyone
The work of the renovation continues slowly but significantly.
This last Monday a group of about twenty-five of us gathered in the Chancel area with Bishop Cabby Tennis for a liturgy of the secularization of our marble and bronze altar. The liturgy, which I have included at the end of this posting, allowed each of us to speak about what the altar has meant to us, to kiss or touch or reverence the altar as we chose, and to pray for our community as it continues to send us out as food for the life of the world.
The next morning the altar was removed and placed into storage as we try to find an appropriate placement for it with another church.
This last Monday a group of about twenty-five of us gathered in the Chancel area with Bishop Cabby Tennis for a liturgy of the secularization of our marble and bronze altar. The liturgy, which I have included at the end of this posting, allowed each of us to speak about what the altar has meant to us, to kiss or touch or reverence the altar as we chose, and to pray for our community as it continues to send us out as food for the life of the world.
The next morning the altar was removed and placed into storage as we try to find an appropriate placement for it with another church.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Renovation as of August 9, 2011
Greetings everyone,
Renovation activity in the church has begun!
The abatement of entryway is underway (the removal of any hazardous materials that will be disturbed in the construction process, and should be completed by the end of the week. Likewise, the preparation of the area behind the accordion wall downstairs for new columns that will support our new baptismal font is also underway.
Simultaneous to this, a group of us will be traveling to Vashon Island today to see the progress Julie Speidel is making on the baptismal font (see the photo below.)
You are all invited to a liturgy of the "secularization" of our current altar on Monday, August 15th at 6:00 PM. Bishop Cabell Tennis will be with us for this liturgy. If you wish to attend, please enter by the red office door (up the stairs off the parking lot). We will gather in the office area and enter the church by the door near the sacristy.
Also be aware that AA meets in the parish hall that same evening, so you may want to park somewhere other than the church lot to avoid being blocked in.
My best wishes to you during this time leading up the our celebration of the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin.
In Christ,
Melissa+
Renovation activity in the church has begun!
The abatement of entryway is underway (the removal of any hazardous materials that will be disturbed in the construction process, and should be completed by the end of the week. Likewise, the preparation of the area behind the accordion wall downstairs for new columns that will support our new baptismal font is also underway.
Simultaneous to this, a group of us will be traveling to Vashon Island today to see the progress Julie Speidel is making on the baptismal font (see the photo below.)
You are all invited to a liturgy of the "secularization" of our current altar on Monday, August 15th at 6:00 PM. Bishop Cabell Tennis will be with us for this liturgy. If you wish to attend, please enter by the red office door (up the stairs off the parking lot). We will gather in the office area and enter the church by the door near the sacristy.
Also be aware that AA meets in the parish hall that same evening, so you may want to park somewhere other than the church lot to avoid being blocked in.
My best wishes to you during this time leading up the our celebration of the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin.
In Christ,
Melissa+
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Put Your Hands Together
by Robin Allan Jones
If you take both of your hands, hold them before you, palms-down, then bring the tips together at, oh, I wanna say, 60 or 70 degrees, you will mimic the A-frame roof of Saint Paul’s Episcopal. Not surprisingly, you will also look like you are praying.
Any piece of architecture is the work of many hands: those of the dreamer who first conceives of a need for a particular structure, finger-painting ideas in mid-air, the master architect who, with sketching pen and keyboard, turns that vague dream into a viable creation, the people who, with fervent hand gestures following even more fervent voices raise the funds to set in motion the breaking of the ground, the builders, with shovels, jackhammers, and paintbrushes, the people who put their hands together beneath the completed roof in the work for which it was intended, and finally, the nearly invisible maintenance man who pushes the broom and squeegees the windows that are part of the building’s essential housekeeping functions.
Architecture is a form of prayer, and everyone involved in the life of a building is an expression of that prayer, fingers, if you will, of God.
With that in mind, somehow, the word “renovation” seems cold, dead, distant Latinesque; what we are doing right now at St. Paul’s is nothing less than adding our hands and our voices to the prayer that is St. Paul’s.
Robin Jones, a liturgical minister at St. Paul’s, is not related to St. Paul’s renovation architect Susan Jones—but he wishes he were.
If you take both of your hands, hold them before you, palms-down, then bring the tips together at, oh, I wanna say, 60 or 70 degrees, you will mimic the A-frame roof of Saint Paul’s Episcopal. Not surprisingly, you will also look like you are praying.
Any piece of architecture is the work of many hands: those of the dreamer who first conceives of a need for a particular structure, finger-painting ideas in mid-air, the master architect who, with sketching pen and keyboard, turns that vague dream into a viable creation, the people who, with fervent hand gestures following even more fervent voices raise the funds to set in motion the breaking of the ground, the builders, with shovels, jackhammers, and paintbrushes, the people who put their hands together beneath the completed roof in the work for which it was intended, and finally, the nearly invisible maintenance man who pushes the broom and squeegees the windows that are part of the building’s essential housekeeping functions.
Architecture is a form of prayer, and everyone involved in the life of a building is an expression of that prayer, fingers, if you will, of God.
With that in mind, somehow, the word “renovation” seems cold, dead, distant Latinesque; what we are doing right now at St. Paul’s is nothing less than adding our hands and our voices to the prayer that is St. Paul’s.
Robin Jones, a liturgical minister at St. Paul’s, is not related to St. Paul’s renovation architect Susan Jones—but he wishes he were.
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