Final approach

An Auto Awesome image from today. You might need to click to make it bigger.

This is The Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Harlow. It’s a fascinating building, Grade II Listed, designed by Gerard Goalen, whose son is giving a lecture at the Twentieth Century Society in February.

Harlow was planned by Sir Frederick Gibberd, the architect of one of my favourite buildings, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

But the real reason I stopped to take that photo today was because it was used for the cover of this.

(Detail from the full-sized image below. Olympus PEN E-P5, M.Zuiko 17mm f1.8, hand-held, perspectives corrected in Lightroom.)

The inside looked stunning – sun streaming low through stained glass.

but peering through the door was as close as I got.