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Re: Oral Hearing into the reordering of St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh
Attached is a submission prepared by the great Propfessor O’Neill on bahelf of the Trustees of the Cathedral who are attempting to ruinate the interior of the Cathedral.
Re: Oral hearing into the reordering of the interior of St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh
The following is a submission made by one Guy Edwards of the Cliveden Conservation Workshops on behalf of the Trustees of the Cathedral. He claims that he would have no difficulty whatsoever in lifting a 30sq foot mosaic from the Chancel floor, atomizing it, and relaying bits and pieces of it in various unspecified places in the Cathedral. He was brough into the hearing by the Trustees because a previous report supplied by Trevor Caley gave no guarantees that such lifting would be possible without damage to the fabric of the moasic. Mr. Edward cited a recent example of such work in London where he managed to lift a mosaic with a need to replace ONLY 30% of the original tesserae.
Mr Edwards, along with a number of others, entered the Cathedral in Cobh in the dark of night on Tuesday 28 February 2006 and bored two holes in the floor of the sanctuary. This caused a gasp of unbelief at the Oral Hearing. It also emerged that he (nor anyone else) had not applied for planning permission to make such an intervention and no Declaration had been made. In fact, this act was an unlawful act and subject to sanctions. Had he done it in the UK he would face prosecution and the clinker. It is to be hoped that the acedia of Cobh Town Council can be moved to prosecute this vandal before anyone else gets the idea that they can simply walk into Cobh Cathedral and hack it to bits with imunity.
Re : Oral Hearing into reordering of the interior of St. Colman’s Cathedral
Attached is a report submitted to the Oral Hearing by planning consultant Mary Doran of Cork on behalf of the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral. It makes interesting reading.
RE Oral Hearing into reaordering of Cobh Cathedral
Attached is the submission of Miss Jessie Castle-Meltiski, of Jack Coughlan and Co. Sunday’s Well, Cork, who co-authored a Heritage Impact Study of Professor O’Neill’s project for Cobh Cathedral for the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral:
Intransigence is the understatement of the year for what has has charcterized those promoting the destruction of the interior of Cobh Cathedral. Mind you, quite a few lies have been told here and there also.
Re: Oral Hearing on St. Colman’s Cathedral
Attached is the submission of Mr. Adrian O’Donovan on behalf of the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral:
Re Oral Hearing into Cobh Cathedral re-ordering
Attached must surely be one of the highlights of the Oral Hearing – the submission of the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral, read by terry Pender. It must surely be one of the best emamples of the public J’accuse genre since Zola. Read it carefully.
Re Oral Hearing into Cobh Cathedral
Attached is a submission made by Counsellor Sean O’Connor, a member of Cobh Town Council. He took the unusual step of distancing himself from the decision of the Town Council and elaborates on some of the “consultation” process thatg went on before this plan was submitted for planning permission.
Re Oral Hearing into reordering of St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh:
Attached is a submission made ny Louis Harrington, Heritage Officer for the County of Cork. Her original recommendation to the planning officer in Cobh was to turn down the application. Des Heffernan, the Senior Planning Offier acting in a tempoprary capacity saw fit to set her advice aside without giving any reasons for it. It should be stated that Louise GHarrington is not only the most senior heritage officer in Cork but in the Republic of Ireland:
Re Oral Hearing on re-ordering of Cobh Cathedral: attached is an important submission made by Anne Wilson for An Taisce:
Re Oral Hearing into re-ordering of St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, the following is a sample of local input into the hearing. The Greek Chorus in the audience was a good deal more colourful and did not hesitate to make its opinioins known – including a great laugh at the senior architect Des Heffernan, who was acting in a temporary capacity when he recommended granting planning permission for the devastation of the historic building:
Re Oral Hearing into re-ordering of Cobh Cathedral, the following is a liturgical analysis of the plans being put forward. It was drawn up by Dr. Reid of London for the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral:
Re the Oral Hearing of An Bord Pleanala into the proposed re-ordering of Cobh Cathedral, I enclose a copy of a canonical analysis presented on behalf of the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral by Dr Alan Kershaw and expert in Canon Law:
This is the closing statement of An Taisce circulated at the end of the Oral Hearing on Cobh Cathedral
I soncerely hope not. I was only thinking today that of E.W. Pugin’s most important buildings Dadizele was bombed during the First World War; Gorton was abandoned and vandalized; and a crowd of ignorant sleezey clerics are trying to wreck Cobh.
Dear Gorton,
Thanks a million for those beautiful pictures of Barton Church. From the facade, you can immediately see the same idea of the soaring arch whichE. W. Pugin used in Cobh, in Dadizele in Belgium and in Glasthule in Dublin. We must find out who has charge of the church and obtain entry.
