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These are from flickr;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandas/464153752/in/set-72157594489673798/
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Fortunately, it should be easy enough to remove all the pub junk if and when the time comes. Then the problem is trying to replace the missing furniture to complete the restoration.
who do you think painted those stars on the cieling?
The website of the pub; http://www.jmk.ie/
In the pictures on the website you can see the ground floor pews are removed, though they must have been long gone before the pub conversion began. They were a vital feature of course.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Is this theone you are looking for? It is by WIlliam Robinson and was begun in 1700.
This photograph was taken at a time when the church was being used by the Greek Orthodox community in Dublin. The only modifications they made to the interior was the erection of a temperorary iconostasis which is necessary for the celebration of Mass in the Byzantine Rite. It screens off the sanctuary -so much for the validity of the gaukers theory that everyone must see everthing that goes on during the celebration of the sacraments. I had heard taht they were moved out of the church although they may have wanted to buy it. Does any one know what went on here.
Yes! Thanks! What a tragic loss.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Try this for starters:
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2005/01/23/story1695.asp
and this:
It says there a preservation order has been placed on the buildings. Whether that means anything however…
On that topic, do you know of any link to info on the conversion of St.Mary’s church of Ireland in Dublin city centre which was so outrageously made into a restaurant pub. Also a before picture of the interior of that church would be great. I’m almost sure there was one in McParland’s Public Architecture in Ireland. Maybe anyone who has access to it could scan in the photograph? Please?
@Praxiteles wrote:
Here is a picture of the interior of the Chapel at Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. It was built in 1839 to specifications by Patrick Byrne who had consulted A.W.N. Pugin on the design of the chapel. The High Altar encases a pietà by John Hogan and is flanked by two angels also by Hogan. Does anyone have any idea as to it present condition – if for no other reason than the fact that Mother Teresa of Calcutta began her religious life here in 1928.
Is this place still in use or has it been deconsecrated? I do hope somebody will be on hand to salvage the Hogan sculptures if the chapel should be turned into pub or a trendy cafe or a badminton stadium.
No, just a single rail in St.Audeon’s. In St.Nicholas of Myra, a few streets away the double railing survives.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Well, here we are the mystery is resolved: St. Andrew’s Westland Row before th hackers got at it.
Notice that the Tbernacle on the High Altar has beenreduced in size thereby casuing a disproportion with respect tot he Altar Piece hanging over it. This kind of tomfoolery is reminiscent of the great Professor O’Neill’s hacking of Turnarelli’s High Altar in the Pro-Cathedral.
It has also entirely lost the tabernacle from the right altar and possibly the mensa of the altar itself.
The double railing is also gone.
The Stations of the Cross have been shorn of their crosses.
What on earth put into their ignorant heads the notion that they could just remove the altar rails. Just pull them out!
I really need to work on my sarcasm.
@PTB wrote:
Perhaps the NGI could put some of it’s stored paintings on show in the Royal hospital. They do have something like 12,000 paintings in their vaults
Would you believe I was thinking exactly the same thing! It must be a good idea.
And many of the paintings in storage are very fine works. Even the ones that aren’t have huge historical value and interest. And there are plenty of other real works of art that could be exhibited in the Hospital instead of that modernist nonsense. The Archaeological museum is well known to be badly in need of space, with tonnes of stuff sitting uselessly in storage. Just look at the recently opened little exhibitions of roman artifiacts and the Cyprian pottery one – those artifacts had been lying in museum drawers for years. Another thing they could use the Hospital for is a decent National Portrait gallery- with all the hundreds of fascinating portraits from the last 4 centuries rarely seen by the public. The Ormonde picture collection could also be housed here, since Kilkenny Castle just won’t let people see the paintings. And so on.
The present situation though is really intolerable, with mini -bars and fridges regularly being hauled into the chapel, for parties and ‘events’ (!) – One of the finest Baroque interiors in Ireland and Britain! – and meanwhile – it’s generally innaccesible to the public!
I visited about a year ago, and, shocked at finding the Hospital Chapel closed to visitors, asked the guy at reception if I could visit the chapel. He seemed bemused, wondering why on Earth I wanted to see the chapel! Then I learn, to visit it, you must go on a tour , arranged by the OPW, and he gave me someone’s phone number!
Ridiculous.
@PTB wrote:
Sometimes I thing that the Royal hospital is the wrong place for the IMMA.
You can’t be serious.
@Praxiteles wrote:
No. The “I would not think so” = “I think you are right. It does look original”.
don’t you think those designs are a bit unusual though? even a bit uncharacteristic?
St.Andrew’s, Dublin; One of the side altars is now a backdrop for the quite beautiful font.
[ATTACH]6293[/ATTACH][ATTACH]6292[/ATTACH]This church has a fine mortuary chapel and also a very fine nuptial chapel. I can’t remember if it had a separate baptistry…
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Shame, but at least they didn’t paint over the mosaics. We wouldn’t have been surprised.
The Protestant Old St.Mary’s church in Clonmel, the original, medieval church of Clonmel, but with the interior largely rebuilt. Two, magnificent windows however are original, or semi-original at least. The font looks to me like a 15th/16th c. original? Am I wrong?
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Clonmel. You can see the font, and see where it’s placed, right beside the altar. Can’t remember the name of this church.
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Lovely church, with great decoration in the sanctuary.
thanks!
But doesn’t that mean, by s.57, of the 2000 act, there must be a virtual moratorium on all re-ordering? What was the law before this?
The central court, normally grand and empty
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[ATTACH]6272[/ATTACH]The Sea Stallion of Glendalough will reside here for, a year.. or so, not sure. Don’t miss it!
Maybe it would be useful to compare An Taisce’s approach to the Point Village tower, now under construction. That should show whether or not they’re hell bent against all high rise, or just Foster’s U2.
I hope there are some people keeping a close eye on the Cathedral- have plans for wreckage been proposed to date?
@Praxiteles wrote:
Letterkenny Cathedral
The fomous Four Masters Pulpit.
remarkable! What year was the church built?
