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@Praxiteles wrote:
Ake!
Hre is another Irish example. It is G.C. Ashlin’s narthex for St. MAry’s Church at Mallow, Co. Cork. The Baptistery is on the left -unfortunately, it has been denuded of its font which is rambling somewhere around the church interior.
Wow. Beautiful. Any interior shot?
They don’t know anything about liturgy, or care I’m sure. I doubt half of these modernist clergymen can pronounce transubstantiation. I think you’re right about the baptistry being unique. A pity it’s locked.
Ballintotis is of the same form as the more elaborate augustinian church in New Ross which is more properly cared for.
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@Praxiteles wrote:
Ballintotis Church built in 1839 . The architect is likely to have been Br. Michael Augustine Riordan.
Lovely. I’m looking at the picture desaturated. It’s a very fine little church. I wonder was there a crucifix painting in the centre? Interesting what you say about Latin in West Africa.
Very optimistic indeed. I personally think there’s more hope of the mass being said in Klingon.
Can you imagine dominus vobiscums echoing around this pink iceing fairy cake of a church?
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I honestly would not want to hear it.@Praxiteles wrote:
This is the magnificent church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Jackson Avenue, Chicago.
It is rated as one of the most important churches int he city of Chicago:
beautiful. Can’t say I care for the blue really.
will it be better than this?a real original gothic door frame 15/16th century holycross
[ATTACH]5731[/ATTACH]It is honestly the most ridiculous colors I have ever seen in an Irish church, and that is saying ALOT. Simply unbelievable.
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Colman’s Church, Ballintotis, Midleton, Co. Cork
For the benefit of the enforcment office of Cork County Councilm in the event that they might stir themselves and get out to Ballintotis, here are two photographs of the interior showing where the radiators of teh heating system wwere and where they are not. Again, work carried out without pkanning permission and without a declaration!
Absurd.
Reminds me of those biscuits, with the wafers and the pink marshmellow stuff in between. What’re they called?
Is this actually an inside joke? Are the priests laughing behind the parish’s back, actually tolerating this? I can get the joke. it’s quite comical.
Well, short of putting a road through them, the State couldn’t do much worse by churches, but you’re right, they probably would put a motorway over the best of them.
a bit late in the day for that now.
The state needs to intervene and declare our churches national monuments.
The friary, Killarney; surrounding the beautiful Flemish altar, some good mosaics, with some neo-celticry thrown in to boot and why not.
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@Praxiteles wrote:
Ake!
Here are some shots of the few surviving original fittings left in Killarney Cathedral. Most of them are situated in the mortuary chapel of Earls of Kenmare. Their survival is due to the protests of the Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, the heiress of the Kenmare estate, who refused to allow them to be torn out. She was buried in the vault of the chapel in 1985.
And I wonder why no one esle objected forcefully enough to prevent the ruination.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Ake!
These shots will give some idea of the sanctuary of Charleville Church. The mosaic work is stupendous and by the Dublin Craftworkers Guild. Unfortunately, it is in a poor state at the moment and in need of conservation and maintenance. Water ingress has caused blistering and sections of it are in danger of falling off of the the wall.
Yes, looks quite good. For comparison…
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[ATTACH]5639[/ATTACH]No not Isfahan, but St.Mary’s Cathedral, in Kilkenny. I think this is best sanctuary decoration I have seen in an Irish church thus far.
