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Bibliography
Verkaaik, Oscar. ed., Religious Architecture: Anthropological
Perspectives. Amsterdam (2013 Amsterdam University Press)
Jonathan Louth
Irvine, Richard D.G., ‘Stability, Continuity, Place: An English
Benedictine Monastery as a Case Study in Counterfactual Architecture.’ (in Verkaaik, Oscar. ed., 2013 as above: p.25)
ARCONSULTING
Dowd, Mark, My Tsunami Journey: The Quest for God in a
Broken World. Eugene, Oregon (2022 Wipf and Stock)
Client: Archbishop Romero Trust
website: www.romerotrust.org.uk
email: romerotrust@gmail.com
Designer: Jonathan Louth, Cathedral Architect
Artist: Fernando Llort, friend of Oscar Romero
Artist’s Studio: El Árbol de Dios, El Salvador
Sculptor: Lado V. Goudjabidze, USA
Design Visualisation: John Jones, Karl Keighley,
Henry Bird
Principal Constructor: Trent Shopfitters Ltd
Metalworker: Control Fabrications Ltd
Masons: Universal Stone Ltd
Builder: G F Stocker
Lighting: James Morse Lighting Design
Electrician: C D Earl Ltd
2024 Installation: Cliveden Conservation Workshop
1 Albert Gate, SW1
| Ambassade de France au
Royaume-Uni French Embassy External Envelope –
RIBA Stage 1 studies
Development Advice from an Architectural Perspective
Conservation and Consultancy for the Built Environment
References
www.jonathanlouth.co.uk
1. The motto’s meaning ‘to be of one mind and heart with the
Church’
13. Michael Evans [RIP 2011] Bishop of East Anglia, donor to
Romero Shrine, trustee of Archbishop Romero Trust
2. The term ‘relics’ encompasses not just physical corporeal
remains but also objects of apparel and appurtenances directly
associated with the saint
14. The original bust is outside Romero’s house, as described in
C&HJ issue no. 43
3. Louth served on the cathedral fabric advisory committee
from 2000 until succeeding Brian Anderson [Purcell Miller
Tritton] as cathedral architect in 2003 until March 2024.
15. The cathedral’s spiritual and liturgical layout - initially
outlined by Canon James Cronin - was illustrated in C&HJ
issue no. 42
4. John ch.14 v.2 “In my Father’s House are many mansions”
16. A cause of Canon Michael Branch that potentially links
the firebombed cathedral with Coventry’s Community of the
Cross of Nails
5. cf. Conservation & Heritage Journal issue nos. 41 to 43
6. Ricardo Urioste was formerly Vicar General under
Archbishop Romero
17. Francis Erconwald Pritchard was a Canon in the then RC
Diocese of Southwark
7. Julian Filochowski, past Archbishop Romero Trust
Chairman, formerly Director of CAFOD
18. Cited in Dowd 2022: 145
8. The Catholic Association For Overseas Development
[CAFOD]
19. Author’s italics
20. Irvine’s 2013: 41
9. The Trust was commissioning client and CAFOD were joint
principal donors
21. Irvine’s italics - by gyrovague, a term applied by St Benedict
to wandering monks, Louth here denotes unsettled, homeless,
potentially dissolute persons
10. The Cathedral has several principal windows by William J
Dowling for Harry Clarke’s studio and by John N Lawson with
Goddard & Gibbs
22. Irvine 2013: 41
11. The artist Fernando Llort, who knew Romero personally,
set up El Árbol de Dios artisans’ workshop in 1981:
cf. www.fernando-llort.com/el-arbol-de-dios, El Savador
23. Dowd 2022: 86
24. Ps. 121 v.4 King James Version
12. John Jones, computer & graphic artist:
cf. https://www.jjgallery.com
25. Hebrews ch. 12 v.1
26. Ps. 125 vv.1-2 The Cathedral Psalter version
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