Clifton Cathedral, Bristol
Built 1965-72
Designed by Percy Thomas Partnership
Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral was completed for the sum of £601,268. Described as the “ecclesiastical bargain of the 1970s”.
It is the first Catholic Church built in the 1970s to be Grade II* listed.
It was the first Cathedral to be built under new guidelines from the Second Vatican Council which wanted to make the congregation feel more involved.
Pevsner’s Architectural Guide to Bristol wrote that the Cathedral was a “sermon in concrete”.
Mike Jenner called it “one of the great interiors of the last 50 years in Britain”.
