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@johnglas wrote:
I share your horror at Drumaroad – what did this inoffensive rural community do to deserve this?
Update on Drumaroad – apparently the church has been temporarily reordered along the west/east axis using the existing furnishings. However, a more appropriate altar has been sourced and the parish priest is currently working to have this installed..
St Malachy’s Belfast
@Praxiteles wrote:
The present interior:
Note that the statues at either side of the windoe have been replaced with silly looking angels
Last time I saw that pair, they were on either side of the tabernacle in Armagh Cathedral! 😉
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. George’s Cathedral, Southwak
1. Showing a drawing by A.W.N. Pugin of 1838 for the interior of the building;
2. The sanctuary as built by Pugin and before bombing in 1941.
Much more elaborate than what was actually built, the drawing shows a triforum and clearstory,which were not part of the building prior to war damage.
@Praxiteles wrote:
This is true about the High Altar but I expect that in 1867 no one had the slightest imagination as what Lourdes was going to become.
The Basilica there has recently been restored and to the highest standard – an example taht could be emulated by not a few visitors from Ireland when “restoring” their catherdarls.
They also have a horrible underground bunker trading as a basilica though?
@Praxiteles wrote:
It is indeed a great survivor. The Stations of the Cross look interesting. Any closer shots?
Note alos that the gas lamps along the sides have been converted to electricity. Similar ones were in Cobh Cathedral but they disappeared and then the wooden partitions disappeared during the “restoration”.
Found one on Wiki – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Stations-of-the-cross-lk-cath.jpg
@Praxiteles wrote:
It is indeed a great survivor. The Stations of the Cross look interesting. Any closer shots?
Note alos that the gas lamps along the sides have been converted to electricity. Similar ones were in Cobh Cathedral but they disappeared and then the wooden partitions disappeared during the “restoration”.
and in Derry, nasty cheap imitations of these were installed. they would be more at home in a McDonalds..
@ake wrote:
Wonderful! What an extraordinary building! And so well kept and preserved!
Indeed it is – apart from this silly glass porch:
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Some Pics of Letterkenny Cathedral (probably the least talked about in the entire country, yet perhaps one of the most intact!)
“south” transept window
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[ATTACH]6265[/ATTACH]@Paul Clerkin wrote:
That’s from way before Bishop Duffy – that’s probably the 1950s
Monaghan was hacked twice – once in the late 60s / early 70s and then later by Duffy.As far as I know that photo was taken in the 1920s or 30s.
I notice the stations on the N Transept wall – they are gone now as well?
@Fearg wrote:
As for the screens, the leaflet in St.Aidan’s says the screens and the fine reredos are in Caen stone, But as you can see they’re coated in bright white paint- why on earth would they paint over pierre de caen?!
I don’t know if the twin churches’ screens are also in that stone- they’re painted the same white…so?
I thought it looked a little odd! The creamy caen stone would look so much better…
Wonder if they painted it white, to match the modern marble of the new altar?
Link to a very interesting site, check out the section on Irish Buildings in particular.
Wexford:
Great Photos Ake.. Well preserved as it is, it has been hacked around with,, looks as though the central throne of the Reredos has been tampered with and that ambo looks terribly out of place. Also, why have they placed that nasty carpet in the most innapropriate of places?
Do you have any shots of the other twin church?
For Comparison – Description of the 1936 Interior at Derry:
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[ATTACH]5993[/ATTACH]@Praxiteles wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the tracery in the great window of Westminster Hall? Is it original, or was it installed in the mid-19th. century at the time of Barry and Pugin’s rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament? From the heraldic achievements in the glazing, the glass is at least post 1837 for it displays the modern arms of the British monarch asopted by Queen Victoria.
Strong similarity to the earlier (non Pugin) North Window of the Hall itself and that at Norwich Cathedral:
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@Praxiteles wrote:
Thanks Ferg for that !
So, would the tracery date from the 1840s then?
That section was built in the 1850s. They did a superb job of tying the victorian building into the medieval hall.
@Rhabanus wrote:
Re the last photo at the bottom: what is that crate dead-centre towards the step leading from the nave into the chancel? Some artist’s “installation”?
Any idea? Why was it included in the photo?
At first I thought it may have been something to do with a lying in state… but it does not look right.
@Praxiteles wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the tracery in the great window of Westminster Hall? Is it original, or was it installed in the mid-19th. century at the time of Barry and Pugin’s rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament? From the heraldic achievements in the glazing, the glass is at least post 1837 for it displays the modern arms of the British monarch asopted by Queen Victoria.
I’m fairly sure the tracery was new when the palace was rebuilt. The window is now further south than the original south end of the hall, as that end of the hall was modified to form St Stephen’s entrance. See the below for some idea of what the original may have looked like (rather like the north end does today):
http://www.show.me.uk/gunpowderplot/popup_img_64.htm
and here we see where the original window was converted to an arch, with Barry’Pugins work further south:
http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=52697562&epmid=3&partner=Google
