| Current and Recent Ecclesiastical Projects
Church of St. Patrick, Weston, West Virginia
Restoration and Renovation of a 1914 Romanesque Revival Church. Details will be forthcoming as well as an updated rendering.
Chapel of St. Martin de Porres, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
Conversion of a former classroom and meeting space into a daily Mass chapel for the staff and visitors to the busy main offices of Catholic Charities. All furnishings and artwork will be crafted by local artists and cabinet makers. The paintings, "de Porres", "Mater Dolorosa" and Panis Vivus" are by Fr. Peter Gray, S.S. The reredos will be built of of glass and wood, allowing light to enter the chapel from the large institutional windows behind it.
St. Hugh of Grenoble Roman Catholic Church
Greenbelt, Maryland
New Baptismal Font of carved white marble and silver plated steel, new Argentinian porcelain tile flooring, hand carved and poly-chromed crucifix, silver liturgical appointments, etc.
 
Pope John Paul II High School ChapelBirmingham, Alabama
Design and Furnishing of New High School Chapel, including all artwork, lighting, flooring, liturgical appointments, furniture, etc.
More photos forthcoming.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic ChurchAlexandria, Virginia
Restoration includes new marble and wood reredos (modeled on classical elements of original church altar), new marble flooring and custom designed carpet, new ambo and statue plinths, new altar of repose, new Mahogany wainscoting, new brass and mahogany railing at shrine, new sanctuary seating, etc.
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St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church
New York, New York
Procurement and restoration of antique solid silver Gorham monstrance, High Mass candlesticks, celebrant and ministers' Chairs, sacristy crucifix, antependia and vestments, nave flooring, and a custom wool predella carpet woven with seals and designs particular to the Dominican Friars and the parish patroness, St. Catharine of Siena.
 
St. Mary, Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
Indian Head, Maryland
Restoration of sanctuary includes new altar versus populo, ambo, reredos on altar of repose, Edwardian stenciling, statuary, period brass appointments, hardwood flooring, etc.
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After
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Project includes new carved marble altar of repose (to conform to reredos), new marble ambo, all new sanctuary seating and prie dieux, restoration of church brass and plate, etc.
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Our Lady of Victory Church
The Palisades, Washington, DC
Series of renovation projects include the church's devotional shrines and the full restoration of the original baptistry, including a new marble font, marble flooring, coffered wood ceiling, etc.
Before After
New Baptistry
St. Anselm's Abbey Church
Washington, DC
Project scope includes design and installation of porcelain tile floor based on English medieval precedents, statuary and woodwork restoration, iron and wooden liturgical appointments, etc.
  
St. Joseph's Church Morganza, Maryland
Renovation/Restoration includes a new wooden altar and pulpit, designed to compliment the existing high altar, mural and faux painting, statuary restoration, period church brass, etc.
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St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church
Grantsville, Maryland
New Construction of a parish church replacing a structure built in the 1970s. The parish expressed the desire for a more traditional church and requested the new building feature elements of the two parish churches merged in the late 60s to form one parish. Designs include a crucifix illustrating the previous structures and a quotation from St. Paul, a solid cherry altar, tabernacle and ambo, custom iron appointments, etc.
Church of the Annunciation
Washington, DC
Renovation includes new hand-carved Calvario, traditional stuccoing of sanctuary walls, wood and plaster reredos, custom wooden and brass appointments, etc.
Before After  St. Michael the Archangel Church Silver Spring, Maryland Current
Approved Plan
...a good church design firm
introduces sound liturgical theology, as taught and approved by the
church, into the application of interior design that is noble and
worthy of divine worship. Good
design is to be consistent with both the
architecture and fabric of the building and respects the hermeneutic of
continuity of church practice regarding worship. In other words, good
ecclesiastical design should never reflect whim, personal tastes or
trends but support the worship of Christ and His Father as expressed
through 2000
years of Catholic liturgical practice (and through the even more ancient
development of the Hebrew liturgy)...For that reason, we avoid the term
"liturgical
consultant" and describe what we do as ecclesiastical design. Our work
draws its origins and mandates
from the official documents of the Church, not an interpretation of
what one may think is the "spirit" of the documents. Proportion, scale,
color, form, materials all serve to unify the celebration of liturgy
and direct
the worshiper's mind and heart to God. Our goal in any project is to
reflect in wood, stone and glass the beauty, truth and goodness that
find their perfect source in Jesus Christ.
D. M. Gardiner
Our
primary references include: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2007
Edition), The General Instructions of the Roman Missal (2004 Edition),
The U.S. Bishops' "Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture and
Worship" (2000), "Sacrosanctum Concilium" (1963), and the contemporary
letters and addresses of his Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI and the Prefect
and Members of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
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