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Here’s some shots of Kilmallock parish church, by McCarthy;
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Exceptional stenciling and mosaic! Pity about the missing central railings.
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As often with McCarthy, he refers to the nearby medieval church, in this case the Dominican Priory across the river. Like the old priory the church has multipile lancets at the east end and to the south a large traceried window, though in the church it’s not actually in a transept, but on the south side of side chapel.
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here’s the priory;
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there’s large versions of the glass and some other pics here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/sets/72157605785936024/
oh and lastly a view of the exterior from the interior;
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The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Canton City, China
In 2007 the Cathedral was thoroughly restaured and got a whole set of new coloured glass windows, which are specially adapted to the tropic climate of Canton.
clever. looks like it works well.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Yesterday’s Solemn Pontifical mass at Westminster Cathedral affords a rare opportunity to see just how Bentley’s great masterpiece was intended to function – i.e. according to the Missal of 1570.
Here we see the sanctuary cleared of its usual clutter. Mercifully, it has managed to escape the vandalis and iconoclasm of which we have already seen so many examples.
what’s going on here? Are they moving forward perhaps? ot just maintenance?
@Praxiteles wrote:
And here the Conversion of Saul from Raphael’s set for the lower walls of the Sixtine Chapel:
my god! they’re far more impressive than the cartoons!
@Praxiteles wrote:
The Church of Sts. Quan and Broghan, Clonea, Co. Waterford, by JJ. McCarthy (1860)
This is a highly decorted church but the spire was never built.
The windows are by the Harry Clarke studio.
By some miracle, it still seems to be intact.
There are some good interior shots available here, from the Survey;
http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=WA®no=22802008
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Patrick’s Church, Portlaw, Co. Waterford, JJ. McCarthy (1858-1860)
There’s some interior shots available now on the Buildings Survey website;
http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=WA®no=22900819
nice woodwork!
St.Mary’s, Killenaule, Tipperary;
here’s the survey record for it;
http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS®no=22103005
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It has a superb east window
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large version; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2562236418/in/set-72157605507228225/
and these which look like HC studio;
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@Praxiteles wrote:
Forget the dead hand of government funding. It inevitably brings compromise to the objectives of any society and meddling of all sorts. It is much better to have heritage associations independently organised and funded. Ultimately, its the only way to advance a heritage agenda.
Hopefully Archiseek has done something to meet the first condition!
I don’t know if I would agree with that. Private trusts lack the strong hand of government. It seems to me that the wreckage of a large part of the country’s sacred architecture and spoiling of virtually all of the rest came about through the absence of government. What’s stopping independent trusts from forming anyway? If they were the answer surely they would already have blossomed all over the country and prevented or reversed the relentless destruction.
@Rhabanus wrote:
Would you regard it as evidence of a hermeneutic of disjuncture or of rupture? As any kind of space it presents a complete disconnect with everything else in and about the building.
In my view it is tantamount to driving a square peg into a round hole. It simply doesn’t work. In fact it screams a rejection of its surroundings and everything that those surroundings proclaim and hold up for admiration.
Would it be accurate to suggest a rejection of “glory”? This concept of “glory”, although sometimes difficult to define, is usually recognised and shared when present. I find that the sanctuary lacks “glory” whereas, by contrast, the other features of the church bespeak “glory.”
It’s certainly a case of rupture. I don’t intend any disrespect to the mentally ill when I say this, but it truly looks like the work of someone clinically insane, particularly from the first photograph, where you can see the context of the delicate Gothic architecture and craftsmanship and smack back in the middle some kind of apparition from looney tunes.
thanks for the great photos Paul. What an awesome building. It’s a pity the window in the transept is off-centre
To be honest I find the naked craziness of the new sanctuary frankly quite disturbing, even leaving aside all aesthetic and liturgical issues.
Thanks for the link nebuly! Esler does great work. I’m not sure the glass in Tagoat looks exactly similar to anything in his oeuvre but it’s possible.
You answered an earlier question of mine with this; found in Esler’s portfolio;
St.Columba’s COI, Knock, Belfast
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This looks great. I’ll have to visit it sometime. I see some of the compositions are more or less lifted from the Book of Kells. No interlace or spirals though? Does anyone by any chance have a larger photograph of this window? And is this the only window in that church of with neo-Early Irish glass?
@Praxiteles wrote:
Ake!
Any idea of who made these windows?
Unfortunately not. I’d like to know, as it’s really quite good work don’t you think?
Here is the modern stained glass in the aisle lights in Tagoat;
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large version here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2474657772/sizes/l/in/set-72157604940388425/
The text at the bottom reads;
‘”There is nothing worth living for but Christian architecture and a boat.”
-Augustus Welby Northmore PuginPresented by the people of Tagoat parish to commemorate the architectural Talent of Pugin.’
@GrahamH wrote:
One of the better designed churches of the early 20th century that largely managed to escape the machine-cut granite-clad barn template of later years is the Church of St. Oliver Plunkett in Blackrock Co. Louth, built c. 1918-1922. It’s a delightful, if at times tried and tested, exercise in Hiberno-Romanesque, designed by Ralph Byrne. It is without question one of his more successful works, if not in fact his most accomplished in terms of completeness of form and execution. Blackrock was and is a wealthy parish – its inhabitants of the 1910s clearly wanted that forcefully expressed.
Thanks for the tour of a beauitful Irish Romanesque building. I especially enjoyed seeing the stained glass in the Early Irish style, complete with La Tene spirals and the more common interlace. I find this to be quite rare, to find these motifs in glass – at least in this part of the country. Anyone know of anyone other buildings with this kind of Irish glass?
The only one I’ve come across in the South East to date is in Adamstown, here however the figures are simply your typical Victorian work as indeed they are in Blackrock too ( here’s a pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2477362535/sizes/l/). What I would like to see would be glass treating the figural scenes in the genuine medieval Irish style – so figures composed as in the Book of Kells for example, or like the figurative High Cross sculptures. Does it exist?
The closest thing to it I’ve seen is in Cahir, just the signs of the Evangelists (pic here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2442212769/sizes/l/in/set-72157603314818657/)
Can anyone name any other examples?
ps the romanesque confessionals is Blackrock are wonderful
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
The Catholic Church of the Annunciation was erected in 1878 to replace the old Chapel in Willbrook Road. Outside the door is a primitive type of font on a pedestal bearing an inscription. The appearance of the font led the archaeologist Patrick Healy to speculate that it was originally a stone bullaun and dated to a period much earlier than the penal times.
This image corresponds with the drawing so it looks like the building was largely completed as designed, at least externally. Internally looks like rails are gone.
I’ve been in this many times – it’s in a spectacular setting surrounded by huge pines- it’s lovely.
On the topic of Pugin Wexford; I wonder is anyone familiar with the little cathedral in the fields of Rathangan, a parish down in the heartland of south Wexford not so far from Tagoat; it’s a remarkable beauty;
“It was in June 1870 when the foundation was laid for Rathangan Church. The architect was Robert Sinnott of Wexford, and the builder James Wilkinson of Enniscorthy”
It has the same basic form as Pugin’s church in Tagoat, but is slightly larger and richer, having columns of red Cork marble with golden Carlow granite capitals;
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Unfortunately, they felt the need to paint it pink at some stage;
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The sanctuary doesn’t stretch out to occupy the whole of the crossing like in Tagoat and unfortunately has lot it’s rails at the front – a shame since they’re complete otherwise.
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The altar, donated by the Patrician Brothers’ Novitiate, Tullow, installed in 1998;
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There is also some high quality stained glass, including an extraordinarily beautiful east window; you can see a large detailed photo of it here and should take a look – it’s magnificent;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2473792471/sizes/o/in/set-72157604937002804/
Couldn’t really photograph the exterior the way the sun was
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take a look here to see the great tower;
http://www.rathangan.net/index.cfm?area=content&action=contentselect&menuid=161
Dropped into St.Nicolas, CARRICK ON Suir today. Once upon a time it looked like this
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later it regressed to this
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This year it was repainted again. What colour? You guessed it.
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Look at the north side altar; and what’s behind the screen!;
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Really beyond a joke at this stage. And look at the south altar;
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what are those benches doing there?! Benches go in the nave and aisles for people to sit on them! They don’t go in the sanctuary! How can they do this? It’s like someone with absolutely zero knowledge of what a church is or what goes on in it and which different parts are for what different things, is put in charge of arranging the furniture inside, and then just goes about placing different things in this spot and that spot, wherever it seems to look pleasant!
