The work of E. W. Pugin
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Another exquisite little gem from Pugin and Ashlin is the parish church at Ballyhooly, near Fermoy, Co. Cork
Ballyhooly Catholic Church
The Right Rev. William Keane, Bishop of Cloyne, laid the foundation stone of the Catholic church in Ballyhooly on 29 August 1867. George C. Ashlin and E. W. Pugin designed the church which is in the pointed style of architecture. It is built mainly from limestone with courses of sandstone. It was dedicated in 1870 and named the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first parish priest in the new church was the Very Rev. Canon Philip Burton (Image from: Irish Builder, Vol.9, 15 May 1867, p.121)Cork City Libraries
BTW all those images are available at
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/cork/Re posting # 38 showing an idealized interior view of Sts. Peter and Paul’s in Cork from the London Illustrated News:
The thought struck me that were Cathal O’Neill to see this he might adopt the same attitude he has to a similar drawing for the interior of Cobh Cathedral and canonize it as the definitive version of the architect’s intended interior. In the case of Sts. Peter and Paul’s it would provide him with just the right thing to “justify” evacuating the interior of everything in it and furnish a “rationale” to the unsuspecting for the brutal implanting of another television quizz show setting, probably not too different from what he is planning for Cobh Cathedral. We are told that Ludwig Mies is his inspiration and muse for all this entreprise. However, anybody familiar with the outskirts of Cracow, Breslau (aka Wroclaw) and worst of all, Prague, will realize the utter dehumanizing effects of the bauhaus and its complete negation of anything personal or creative in man. The social disasters to which all this has contributed in the former commie bloc underlines just whay anything as fascist as Mies must be approached with the utmost caution. Importing all this into a religious context is doubly absurd since the religious is built on and nourishes the exact opposite of the herd.
Regarding Edermine, the chapel was indeed built by E.W. Pugin for the Power family around 1858. It is pretty simple in design.
Edermine served as a refuge for the Maredsous Benedictine novices under the leadership of Abbot Columba Marmion for a time during the First World War. Dom Mark Tierney OSB tells the story in his book Dom Columba Marmion published by Columba Press, Dublin.
The Maredsous community eventually established a permanent Irish foundation in 1927 at Glenstal (four years after Abbot Marmion’s death).Attached is an elusive photograph of the interior of E. W. Pugin’s fine parish church at Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester The alternating courses of the Porta Coeli arch and of the lateral arches reminds one instantly of the Cathedrls of Siena and Orvieto.
Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester
Attached is a detail from the wall paintings of the Chancel depicting the adoration of the Lamb. On the left, E.W. Pugin is depicted holding a plan of the church.
Fortunately, this interior has survived almost perfectly intact. We should be grateful to English Heritage for that. They could teach our mick mouse heritage protection outfit in Ireland a lesson or two – especially as far as the heritage officer on Co. Cork is concerned.
Following a financial disaster, E.W. Pugin went to America in 1873 to establish an office in New York. He stayed less than a year but while there produced drawings for at least one important commission; the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour at Roxbury, Boston. It is believed that many of E.W. Pugin’s projects in North America were executed by his brother Peter Paul Pugin – about whose work much research still awats and undertaker.
The Basilica at Roxbury before completion (1910) of the spires:
The basilica was consecrated on 7 April 1878.
The interior:
@Praxiteles wrote:
Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester
Attached is a detail from the wall paintings of the Chancel depicting the adoration of the Lamb. On the left, E.W. Pugin is depicted holding a plan of the church.
Fortunately, this interior has survived almost perfectly intact. We should be grateful to English Heritage for that. They could teach our mick mouse heritage protection outfit in Ireland a lesson or two – especially as far as the heritage officer on Co. Cork is concerned.
A clearer image of the wall painting showing E.W. in medieval dress holding a plan of the church. The painting is by J. Alphege of Hardman and Co., Birmingham, c. 1868.
Holy Cross, Croston Manor, Lancashire
Built for the Catholic de Trafford family by E. W. Pugin (1857)
The Church of Our Lady and St. Finnan. Lough Shiel, Glenfinnan
E.W. Pugin (1874)
Unfortunately, the interior has not survived the wreckers. Clearly, Scottish law is as comitted to conserving heritage as English law.
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