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re the 2040 prognostications I should say that I have never taken any notice of the criteria of Emanuel Tode and the sociology department of the Paris Quatrieme!
More then the altar folds, I noticed that this little arrangement in Denver has reduced the seating capacity from 1,000 to 800.
The Convent of Mercy, Birr, Co. Offaly
Begun by A.W.N. Pugin for Sr Beckett, a personal friend, in 1845. Continued under his son E.W. Pugin. The orphanage is by G.C. Ashlin.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Norwich
Sir Gilbert Scott (1882) by for the Henry 15th. Duke of Norfolk
Re Covington Cathedral:
Has Luzarches noticed the striking schematic similarities of what heppened in this church with what is proposed fro St Colman’s Cathedral? Certainly, the five stepslead to now where. It is specifically to avoid this net result that Cathal O’Neill wants to dig out the Chancel floor in Cobh and hack the Oppenheime mosaic to bits.
Indee, as has been mentioned earlier in this thread, Vasko is a bane-
This was the Basilica before the wreckage (2003)
Covington Cathedral was begun in 1894 and brought to its present (unsifinished) state in 1915.
The architect was Leon Coquard
This is what happened:
Luzarches,
I think you need to bring yourself up to speed. Benedict XVI, in his address to the Curia of 22 December 2005, laid down the stakes for the proper interpretation of the Council. He reasserted what the sane have been saying for 50 years – the Council has to be seen in continuity with the Church’s history and not -as the iconoclastis hold – in disjunction from it. If you read the promoters of the Cobh destruction you would imagine that the diocese of Cloyne has not celebrated a Catholic liturgy for 50 years and that somehow the diocese is prohibited from participation in the modern liturgy. Did you ever hear such a turdish heap of rot and that coming from someone who was supposed to have enough Wissenshaft to be Master of Ceremonies to the Roman Pontiff. I ask you….!!!!
The Church of Our Lady and St. Finnan. Lough Shiel, Glenfinnan
E.W. Pugin (1874)
Unfortunately, the interior has not survived the wreckers. Clearly, Scottish law is as comitted to conserving heritage as English law.
I am glad to have Peter Parler’s assurances about his Prague masterpiece – the Vitusdom. I posted the photograph in the first place because I am told that the consultancy firm McCutcheon-Mulcahy, who are promoting the wreckage of Cobh Cathedral, are claiming that the sanctuary of the Vitusdom has been re-ordered and brough forward in the same way that the great Professor O’Neill plans to extend the sanctuary in Cobh into the nave. Not having been in Prague for some years, I was not too sure about that claim but am heartened to see from the recent photographs that have been posted that all is still intact in Prague. What McCutcheon Mulcahy do not seem to realize is that if you extend the sanctuary in Prague, you will have to remove the mausoleum of the Emperors Ferdinand and Rudolf which is bang in the middle of sanctuary. Indeed, a new temporary altar has been set up in the sanctuary – but the problem about using it that you cannot see over the mausoleum and anybody behind it cannot see anyone at the new altar. If you were to extend the sanctuary into the nave, you would require a runway of about 150 feet. The peculariaties of the Vitusdom are explained by the history of its building. The medieval part of this vast church consists only of the Chancel. The building of the cathedral was overtaken by the wars of religion in 15th century. This resulted in the abandonemnt of the building process. A wall was build across the west end of the Chancel leaving one with lòittle more than an enormous sanctuary. When the Emperors Ferdinand I Mathias and Rudolf died Bohemia was in turmoil. In the 20th. century, a decision was taken to complete the Vitusdom by building the nave. The work was completed by 1928 and the wall screening off the Chancel was taekn down to reveal the imperial mausoleum right in the middle of the Chancel before the High Altar. The Mosoleum, by Alexander Collin, was built between 1566 and 1589.
I thought so, but I am not sure. I am told that an extension of the sanctuary has been made into the nave. My recollection of St. Vitus was such that no extension could be made into the nave because of the sheer distance between the nave and chancel and because of the imperial mausoleum which sits in the lower plane of the Chancel. Could I have been mistaken?
