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@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Wouls anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this problem? And, perhaps more importantly, how it might be solved?
Shouldn’t Cobh’s architetto already be working on this?
@Morlan wrote:
Aye, 185 meters to be precise. U2 tower is only 25m from the river.
One of my favorite pastimes! 🙂
That kind of compromises the whole ‘gateway’ concept, but maybe that’s not so bad. But there should be a great view of the point tower up that street there, whatever it’s called.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Some more shots of the interior of the chuch of the Immaculate Conception, Kanturk, Co. Cork
Lovely! Beautiful carved stone on the pillars and arches.
Those exit signs awful. I don’t really see how they’re required either. Certainly, there’s no consistency about their use.
The parish church in Kenmare
[ATTACH]5540[/ATTACH]I think the painting of the borders works very well. Alot of the smaller, plainer Irish parish churches could benefit from it,
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Killarney Cathedral; as is well known, the interior is ruined beyond description. There’s currently a fundraising drive to conserve the fabric of the building. hah! They could sell some of those flat screen televisions littered all over the church.
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Some of the surviving fragments.
[ATTACH]5526[/ATTACH][ATTACH]5530[/ATTACH][ATTACH]5531[/ATTACH]In contrast, the protestant church in Killarney actually resembles a house of Christian worship and has some wonderful glass.
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[ATTACH]5532[/ATTACH]@Rhabanus wrote:
Why doesn’t the Cloyne HACK spend its energies on that thing?
Because it’s ALREADY abominably ugly.
@Praxiteles wrote:
The idea strikes me that we could run an opinion poll and let the the viewers, all 200,000 of them, decide the issue and it might cause the HACK to muster up the courage to go.
The question that could be put is a simple one:
Do you think that the Cloyne HACK should resign in the wake of their recommendation to wreck the interior of St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork?
Yes!
Praxiteles wrote:St. Mary’s, Dungarvan, Co. WaterfordApart from the altar frontal by John Hogan under the High Altar, this church has some fine pieces of sculptor (which may be of interest to Ake).
Among these, a excellent neo-classical (probably Italian) Immacolata]
Nice sculpture. Surprising it hasn’t been dumped.
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Mary’s Church, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford (1831) with interior by by George Pain.
The interior here is similar to the North Cathedral in Cork (1828), St. Patrick’s in Fermoy (1828), and Minane Bridge.
So depressing. Look at that absurd yellow gothic vaulting! It’s just ridiculous! and totally empty of any beauty. The building is hardly worth stepping into. It’s so humiliating. To think we would do this to our own hard won heritage. Why, why, why.
@Praxiteles wrote:
St, Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
And here we have the Baptistery with the colonettes of the gate missing – stolen apparently.
!!Shocking.
What a disgrace.
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
What this is all about, I could not tell you. It has a distinctive pagan feel to it…..
wtf?!! Is this some kids science project?
@Praxiteles wrote:
And here is another bloomer from O’Callaghan:
“The end result to my mind was superb, an ideal solution in keeping with the character of the cathedral. AS the design plan for the extension to the sanctuary reached forward at a lower level it brought the congregation closer to the altar while providing an unobtrusive view of the original sanctuary as inspiring background”.
What is this obsession with bringing the congregation closer to the altar?! Is the priest so lonely up there? Concentrate on saying your mass for godsake.
If it’s so important to bring them close to the altar, why not put the altar on wheels and drive it up and down the nave while the mass is being said?
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Mary’s Church, Buttevant, Co. Cork
An internal view of the west transept window glazed by Watsons of Youghal c. 1910. The upper central panel depicts the Assumption of Our Lady.
Another unstencilled mess. Lovely stained glass. Any old photographs of the interior?
@Praxiteles wrote:
Monaghan Cathedral
After nearly two years of searcing this is about as much as Praxiteles has been able (so far) to unearth of the original sanctuary. It does however give a good idea of what it was like. Note the floor of the sanctuary – is is quite similar to that in Cobh Cathedral (the one they wanted to hack out).
Sublime. Look at those wonderful railings. Will it ever look like this again?
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Mary’s Church Buttevant (1832) by Charles Cottrell of Cork
Tis a beauty. Why doesn’t the FOSCC step up and become friends of all Cork Churches?
I found this in the National Photographic Archive. Online!
Waterford Cathedral, in it’s original glory.
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And now;
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This makes me dangerously angry. Besides the loss of the stenciling you can see the choir stalls have been moved back away from the altar, and the Baldacchino whitewashed. How did such infant-minded ignorant hippy bastards ever get into the position of power over the architectural decoration of this great work of art, and all the others like it throughout the country? How? Who let this happen? Why did the parishioners and the city corporation allow this? Once they saw it why did they not order them to reverse it? Was there nobody left in Ireland that could distinguish between these two photographs?
