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Jerpoint Abbey, Kilkenny. Here I’ve photoshoped the south aisle into existence. Actually I used paint.
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in reality;
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[ATTACH]4427[/ATTACH]I love these little Anglican churches and it really vexes me to see them always closed. What a vast part of our heritage we’re missing out on. These rural churches are the focal point of the history of the surrounding townlands – what a cultural void is left in the wake of their loss, (or inaccessability). The monuments of the people who lived in the area down the centuries – the very substance of history is locked away, lost or dispersed.
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sorry for going off topic a bit…@Praxiteles wrote:
And here are some of the surviving tatters from the first 19th. century High Altar of the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne, Cork: the predella depicting the Last Supper by John Hogan
COI Cathedral, Ferns, Wexford
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/sets/72157600000011739/Re; Kilkenny
@Praxiteles wrote:And restoration there will be: and sooner, I suspect, rather than later!
what makes you say that? is something afoot?
@Praxiteles wrote:
The Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne, Cork
This is what it used to look like firstly before Boyd-Barrett got his hands on to extend the sancturay in 1964 and before Richard Hurley devastated it. On the wall behind the High Altar, the statues of the Apostles by John Hogan can just about be seen. They disappeared after Boyd-Barrett’s composition was built and did not reappear until c. 2000.
Don’t suppose you have close ups of the statues.
An aside; there is another copy of the Belzoni in Kilkenny RC Cathedral in Limerick RC Cath., both autographed. Disapointing
Praxiteles wrote:And this is what it has been reduced to:The gutting that took placed here saw:
1. the demolition of the entire altar rauil which, like Cobh, spanned the transepts and nave]
I’m at a loss for words here. This is criminal. Teenagers caught spraying a few letters on the outside of the church would become convicted felons. These ignorant priests OBLITERATE the interior with complete impunity. The irish catholic clergy have out calvinized the calvinists.
@Fearg wrote:
Kilkenny:
Those photos are fantastic, I especially like the way the photographer has captured the cathedral without showing us any of the blandness that now occupies the crossing! Its a real pity that some lunatic decided to put a couple of nice white rads on either side of the reredos.. what were they thinking?
Thanks, btw I presume you know that the full size pics are on flickr? The ‘all size’ button is above the pic to the right. Interesting to see the fine woodwork on the organ balcony at the west end- compare to what’s there now! The place truly has been wrecked, with those ‘furnishings’ in the crossing and chancel. I know this has been said before but the crossing now looks uncannily like the bridge of a spaceship, especially with the ridiculous jet black cathedra and blood red carpet poised on a height, ready to beam to warp 5.
@james1852 wrote:
The first photo is of kilclaren church Feakle Co. Clare, decorated by us in 1932. The second is of the same church desecrated in 1982.
Appalling, utterly appalling. Who are these architectural sadists?
St.Francis Xavier, Gardiner street.
Full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/sets/72157594567519557/
[ATTACH]4320[/ATTACH]Kilkenny RC Cathedral. Just bear in mind that dozens of such masterpieces of painting have been just painted over as if they were a rusty gate! The full set, along with other Kilkenny pics is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/59301202@N00/sets/72157594527658365/
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The Church of St. Francis, Liberty Street, Cork with its apse mosaic:
Nice pictures. Also nice ones of the Fermoy pro -pity about the poor painting. St. Francis seems more ornately decorated than Clonskeagh. Certainly the apse mosaic is superior. In clonskeagh, the colour scheme is blue-yellow, and alot of the brick is left exposed (it works well enough). I notice St.Francis has no suspended crucifix.
re Nicolas of myra I have a close up of Hogan’s pieta somewhere on flickr.
Any body come across pictures of modern Irish cloisters?You all probably are familiar with these, but just in case somebody isn’t
http://roundtowers.org/index.htm
http://highcrosses.org/
http://www.ecclesiasticalireland.org/
http://www.castles.ancientireland.org/
Those are linked together.
http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/gazetteer.html
A really great site that.
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/
There is actually alot more of Ireland covered in that than you can access through the site. What’s not there is quite likely to be found here;
http://ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/
Just do a search for a location.Please people, post your links for Irish art and arch
pics of Christchurch Waterford, St.Michan’s, Rotunda Hospital (mostly chapel) and some of Waterford RC Cathedral
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95516907@N00/
St.Ann’s, Dublin, Georgian woodwork
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59301202@N00/sets/72157594527636954/Anglican churches have suffered nearly as badly as Catholic churches in the 20th and 19th cs it seems to me.
Anyone have information on this spectacular altar in New Ross? It’s in the church near the St.Mary’s COI not in St.Kieran’s. With bad stained glass, the lighting is poor and aggravated by hideous blaring orangey tungsten spotlights, so correcting the white balance made these slightly dim
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[ATTACH]4202[/ATTACH]Well the painting was beautifully intact in Thurles Cathedral. There’s too many pics to put here, if anyone wants to see them they’re on flickr under the username ‘ka1mi’. There’s shots of the Gesú tabernacle too, as well as lots of other churches, including Christchurch, which I adore.
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It occured to me that changing the colour scheme in a church is no different from changing the colour scheme in a painting. Imagine taking a Poussin, and changing all the colours of the garments, the foliage etc to your liking, leaving the actual shapes intact, or imagine taking say, something like the Wilton diptych and replacing the rich decorative patterns on the clothes with a monochrome blue or red.
