Portfolio: Kenrick-Glennon Seminary Confessionals

This is a reinstatement of confessionals at the entrance of the St. Joseph Chapel in the St. Louis Archdiocesan Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. Without any documentation of the original design, we attempted a creative reconstruction in the original location using the original doors and end panels. Fluted Doric pilasters support a pediment with oval escutcheons of the Holy Spirit and St. Peter’s keys. The Latin inscriptions in the frieze state “Accipite Spiritum Sanctum” on the left and are continued on the right with “Quorum Remiseritis Peccata Remissa Sunt Eis.” The traditional configuration has a movable screen allowing the seminarians to go behind the screen or face to face. The stained oak matches the original pieces and carved violets, symbolic of penitence, are placed in the frieze.