September 28, 2005

Munns Manufacturing has been selected to build the magnificent three-level, eighty-three foot seven inch campanile or bell tower for the new Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. The tower has a twenty-two foot ten inch base and is crowned with a ten foot 5 inch Budded Cross. Level one will house a 1500-lb bell. The bell in level two weighs 800-lbs and the bell in level three weighs 560-lbs. Also being constructed for the chapel is a twenty-one foot nine inch lantern or cupola including an eight foot four inch Budded Cross. An additional nine foot eleven inch four-columned cupola is being constructed for the school's administration building. Duncan Stroik, Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and principal of Duncan G. Stroik Achitect, LLC is the Design Architect for the chapel project and Rasmussen & Associates, Ventura California is the Construction Architect. To view an artists rendition and article visit: http://www.adoremus.org/0404StroikChapel.html.  Also to view other pictures of Thomas Aquinas by Duncan Stroik the Design Architect at http://www.stroikarchitect.com/portfolio/holytrinity.php

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