Re: Re: reordering and destruction of irish cathedrals – St Colmans Cathedral, Cobh

@Praxiteles wrote:

“There seems to be little or no appreciation of ecclesiastical architecture amongst the clergy. The cathedral I built at Enniscorthy is completely ruined. The bishop has blocked up the choir, and stuck an altar under the tower!!…it could hardly have been treated worse had it fallen into the hands of the Hottentots….It is quite useless to attempt to build true churches , for the clergy have not the least idea of using them properly. A.W.N. Pugin

I wonder what Pugin would have to say about our current crop of ecclisiastical Hottentots 😉