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The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Architect: Reed Smart and Tappin of Melbourne
Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook, Dublin
Originally designe by Patrick Byrne, resigned in 1863 because of old age, an taken over by E.W. Pugin and G.C. Ashlin .
Here is an elevation as published in the Irish Builder on 15 August 1866
West facade left incomplete: pinacles added in 1910:
Th Cathedral of St. Carthage, Lismore, Australia
11 Sept 1887 St Carthage’s Parish Church declared the Pro-Cathedral.
17 March 1892 Building of the Cathedral announced by Bishop Doyle. Architects, Messrs Wardell and Denning, to prepare plans.
2 Oct 1892 Foundation stone of the Cathedral to be laid by Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney. Ceremony postponed until 4 October because of inclement weather.
April 1893 Building programme deferred due to financial crisis in Australia.
Sept 1904 Excavations for the foundations Commenced.
2 Jan 1905 Pro-Cathedral destroyed by fire.
27 May 1905 Foundations of the Cathedral completed.
31 May 1905 First brick on the Cathedral wall layed by Bishop Doyle.
24 June 1907 First Mass in the Cathedral celebrated by Bishop Doyle.
18 Aug 1907 Dedication of St Cathage’s Cathedral by Cardinal Moran.
10 June 1911 Construction of Tower completed. Bells consecrated.
11 June 1911 Blessing and opening of the Tower.
23 June 1912 Blessing of the pipe organ.
15 Aug 1919 Solemn consecration of the Cathedral and the Altars.
This is an interesting link:
http://www.achome.co.uk/ architecture/gothic.htm
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
The Cathedral in 1865
St. Mary’s in 1901
The facade with the new spires 2000
The present sanctuary in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Australia
In 1821 the foundation stone of the first St Mary’s Chapel was laid by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Sydney’s first bishop, John Bede Polding took up residence in 1835. In 1842 he becomes first Archbishop of Sydney. In 1865 St Mary’s Cathedral was ruined by fire.
Work begins on a new cathedral in 1865 and is completed in three stage: the northern section in 1882, the central tower in 1900 and the Nave in 1928, a total of 60 years. Between 1998 and 2000 the Spires are added.
The cathedral is 107 metres long, 24.3 wide at the Nave, it’s ceiling is 22.5 metres high with the height of the central tower at 46.3 metres. The front tower and spires are 74.6 metres high.
The completion of the spires for the millennium of 2000
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melboune
Designed by William Wardell, St Patrick’s is regarded internationally as the finest ecclesiastical building in Australia and a pre-eminent example of the Gothic Revival style. The austere facade gives little hint of the glorious interior with its ethereal golden light of mesmerising beauty.
St Patrick’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. The Centenary of its official opening and Consecration was marked in 1997; however, the first Mass was celebrated on the site in February 1858 in a former partially completed church, some of which was incorporated into the south aisle of the present building; by 1868, the completed nave of the Cathedral first served the needs of the community for regular worship and prayer.
Dates in the History of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
1835 Settlement of Melbourne (at the head of Port Phillip Bay) in Port Phillip District of the Colony of NSW.
1839 Rev Patrick Bonaventure Geoghegan OSF first priest arrives in Melbourne.
1847 July 9 Australia Felix established as the Diocese of Melbourne .
1847 July The Colonial Secretary grants two acres of land for a church on Eastern Hill, where St Patrick’s Cathedral now stands. Fr Geoghegan establishes St Patrick’s Parish.
1848 October 4 Bishop James Alipius Goold OSA takes possession of See of Melbourne.
1850 April An additional two acres of land is approved for a bishop’s residence.
April 9 Bishop Goold lays foundation stone of first (freestone) St Patrick’s Church.
1858 February 14
Bishop Goold blesses the first section of the second (bluestone) St Patrick’s Church. Bishop Goold announces a cathedral is to be built for the diocese.
November William Wardell commissioned to prepare plans for a cathedral church and work commences.
December 8 First contract for Cathedral signed.
1870 March 17 Dean Fitzpatrick lays first stone of central tower.
1874 March 17 Melbourne created a Metropolitan See
1886 June 11 Death of Archbishop Goold. He lies buried in the Holy Souls Chapel.
1887 June 11 Archbishop Thomas Carr arrives in Melbourne.
1897 October 27 Consecration of St Patrick’s Cathedral under Archbishop Thomas Carr.
1913 March 23 Arrival of Dr Mannix, coadjutor to Archbishop Carr.
1917 May 6 Death of Archbishop Carr who lies buried in the Sacred Heart Chapel. Archbishop Daniel Mannix becomes third Archbishop of Melbourne.
1937 March 31 Contract for central spire signed – Conolly and Vanheems.
October 31 Contract for front spires signed.
1939 March 31 Spires completed and blessed by Archbishop Mannix.
1948 May 2-9 Celebrations to mark Centenary of Diocese of Melbourne.
1963 November 6 Death of Archbishop Daniel Mannix who was succeeded by Archbishop Justin Simonds.
1967 July 30 Installation of Melbourne’s fifth Archbishop, Archbishop James Knox.
October 3 Death of Archbishop Simonds.
1970 November 15 First Masses on New Sanctuary.
1974 July 24 Pope Paul VI confers title and dignity of Minor Basilica on St Patrick’s Cathedral
August 18 Installation of Melbourne’s sixth Archbishop, Archbishop Little.
1986 November 28 Pope John Paul II addresses clergy in the Cathedral on occasion of his Papal Visit.
1989 December 8 Archbishop Little blesses and restores bells.
1992 June 7 Ceremony to mark the Inauguration of Restoration and Conservation Works.
1996 July 16 Retirement of Archbishop Little.
August 16 Archbishop Pell becomes Melbourne’s seventh Archbishop.
1997 St. Patrick’s Cathedral restoration works completed. Centenary of the Consecration of the St Patrick’s Cathedral and dedication of the Altar
2001 March 26 Archbishop Pell appointed Archbishop of Sydney
2001 August 1 Installation of Melbourne’s eighth Archbishop, Archbishop Denis HartFor further information on th architect follow this link:
http://www.melbourne.catholic.org.au/cathedral/williamwilkinsonwardell.htm
The Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge, Bartrestree, Herefordshire
(re-developed as flats: not sure of those windows on the roof)
The Rood Screen of the Sixtine Chapel, Rome,
Mass was celebrated for the first time in the chapel on 9 August 1483
The area of the chapel above the Rood Screen showing the gradine for the throne of the Pope on the left wall.
Originally, the Rood Screen was located at the other side of the choir gallery visible on th left hand side of the photograph.
Here is another French example of a Rood Screen
And a rather interesting little text I happened upon:
In the West, an iconostasis
(image-covered wall separating the nave (where
the people stand) from the
chancel (where the Altar is) is documented well before 1000 A.D., and well before such “rood” screens were used in the Christian East.Anglo-Saxon churches had a wall between the nave and the chancel. The earliest recorded example of such a screen or wall comes from St. Brigid of Ireland’s church at the Oak. Curtains covered the door-openings in the solid wall, and sacred imagery decked the entire wall. The image here shows a very late development of the screen, in regard to its open-ness and the rood sculptures.
The Rood Screen at Sligo Abbey
A plain Cornish Rood Screen in a parish church
The Elizabethskirche in Marburg
Here is an example of a Western Latin Rite Rood Screen sill extant. It can be seen in the church of St Etienne du Mont in Paris.
Here is an extant example of what altar railings originally looked like: San Clemente in Rome. The railing is in two parts: across the sanctuary, dividing the nave from the chancel; and a further rectangular space demarcated in the nave for the lower clergy.
Patrick Charles Keely
Immaculate Conception, Boston
The Church of the
Immaculate ConceptionThe Church of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated on March 10, 1861, and served for three years as the first regional Jesuit seminary in the United States. For the next five decades, from 1864 to 1913, Immaculate Conception served as the chapel for Boston College and Boston College High School until the college moved to Chestnut Hill in 1913 and the high school moved to Columbia Point in 1957.
Designed in the style of Italian Renaissance Revival by Patrick Charles Keeley, a 19th century architect of distinction, the Church of the Immaculate Conception is an imposing structure of white New Hampshire granite. The interior design, particularly noted for its spacious openness and ornate plaster work, is considered to be the work of Arthur Gilman, the architect responsible for crafting the master plan of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.
