Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

St. Patrick’s Church, Fermoy, Co. Cork

After a long search for a photograph of the interior of this church before it was wrecked, Praxiteles has finally unearthed an interior view showing the High Altar designed by G. C. Ashlin (of which the mensa survives) set proportionately to chancel window which is by Mayer’s of Munich.

Of poignant interest, however, is the pupit which is in a Tudor Gothic style. This pulpit was only major work of Seamus Murphy in marble and is one of his early works. He refers to it in his book Stone Mad. It is quite remarkable that literally not a single trace of any element of the pulpit is known to survived wreckage.

Also of (conservation) interest is the Victorian tiles in the central and side aisles which was installed in 1900. Up to the present, they are beneath the ubiquituous carpet.