If the visitor turns sharp right when he has passed from narthex to ambulatory and walks anti-clockwise, he will have on his right-hand side a 'dalle-de-verre' or glass and concrete wall designed and made by Patrick Reyntiens. It was the first big work of 'dalle-de-verre' in this country. The coffered panels are framed in such a way that they seem to be curved. For his theme Reyntiens went to the bible, to the first nine verses of Genesis and the passage in Proverbs, C.viii, which forms the Lesson for the Mass of the Immaculate Conception. As in Creation there was amorphous, undifferentiated matter with the beginnings of definition and pattern, so the glass symbolises those obscure beginnings, with here and there the promise - the first signs - of order and system.

A small section of the 'dalle-de-verre' wall, by Patrick Reyntiens, that forms the main part of the exterior circular wall around the Church.

The High Altar in the centre of the church

 

One of the Stations of the Cross by Arthur Dooley looking from the Ambulatory towards the centre of the church.

On the visitor's left side are the fourteen V-shaped pillars which support the drum and hold in their arms the Stations of the Cross. These were designed and cast in bronze by Arthur Dooley and are the fruit of two years of thought and trial. They amply repay close examination. The series of Stations is so arranged that it begins and ends close to the entrance to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, and consequently the Stations nearest to the Narthex are the seventh and eighth.