Cannon Chapel Research Paper

Henry Mansfield Cannon Memorial Chapel, also known as Cannon Chapel, is a historic chapel on the University of Richmond campus in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by noted architect Charles M. Robinson and built-in 1929 in the Late Gothic Revival style. It constructed of brick, stone, and concrete and has a rectangular plan with a telescoping projection at the rear. During the mid-1980s, new stained glass windows were installed as part of a renovation project.

Cannon Memorial Chapel is a completely independent building at University of Richmond functioning as a Baptist church. It has 6 panels as regular new England building style: 2 roof panels with 4 building walls. The largest panel in the front have a gate and large windows serve as the
Stained-glass windows are almost synonymous with all kinds of the church building, concealing walls than the painting hanging on the wall. Moreover, they send and not reflect light, filtering and transforming the natural sunlight with special mystical quality Most of the painting in stained-glass windows are the Holy Scriptures and since their brilliance lets the magnificent light pass into the church, they enlighten that believer inside from the portrait of holy Bible. Also as the basic function of windows, those Holy Scriptures’ glasses expel the wind, rain and pass the sunlight into the church. The believer has a feeling of protection from god and Holy Scriptures.

From the basic structure and form of this Chapel, it is obviously to all of us that the basic function of this chapel serves as the religion building. Even though the out looking and inside decoration of memorial chapel has high art value and Aesthetics feeling even for average people, Still the Chapel is severed as religious building and all of that building structure and decoration are used for rising religious thinking and atmosphere for the