preview

St Aengus Church At Burt Summary

Decent Essays
Open Document

St Aengus’ Church at Burt or better known as “Burt Church” at Donegal designed by Liam McCormick is one of McCormick’s examples of being able to create a form that is instinctively belongs to its landscape. The construction of the Church began and ran in-between the years of 2964 to 1967. The church’s’ form itself takes its form from the Bronze Age Structure “Grianain of Aileach” which is a hilltop fort in Donegal. The form also takes from the pagan belief of a circle being a “circle of life”, to allow for the individuals in the space to become a single collective of people. ¬¬ The area in which McCormick chose to design the Church is rich with Christian and Pagan history, so the ideology¬¬ of creating a Church with reference to religious

Get Access