Praxiteles

Some of their work in Westminster Cathedral:

http://www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/art/art_mosaics_2.html

For our archival collection: The opus sectile work of James Powell and Sons, LOndon.

This register of locations has been extracted from the company registers on deposit in teh Victoria and Albert Museum. Much of the work was done for locations in England but a a significant number of enteries apear for locations in Ireland:

http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/pdf/opuslist.pdf

The following enteries are Irish commissions: 304, 310, 358 (Corkbeg), 391 (through Buckley of Youghal); 392, 396, (through Buckley of Youghal for Tullow, Co. Carlow), 420 (through Buckley, Youghal, for Convent of Mercy, Cahir), 611, 612, 617, 707, 728, 729, 754, 771, 818, 827, 841, 852, 885 (St. Anne’s, Shandon), 887, 898, 908, 914, 930, 958.

Interestingly, a number of glass makers used this comnpany to provide goods to their clients. Buckley of Youghal and also Hardman of Bermingham with the provision that when delivered the name of Powell shuld not appear on the cases.

Another example of some fine metal work:

“The main entrance to Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church (1847-1849) is through these doors, donated to the church by a member of the Fisk family of Philadelphia. The doorway was designed by architects Zanzinger, Borie & Medary in 1923 and was created by the famed Philadelphia studios of Samuel Yellin and Nicola d’Ascenzo”.

@Fearg wrote:

Its not yet been rededicated, notice the empty tabernacle stand, I dread to think what will sit there on Sunday next. Very sad indeed considering that until recently this church had survived more or less intact. Not sure of the architect… I wonder..

Not sure of the architect…well it will not be too difficult to find out.

St Patrick’s, Dungannon.

Well, Praxiteles believes that the photograph in this link speaks volumes about the loss of even a risidual sense of the sacred in Christian worship. Clearly, we are dealing with a musical or theatrical entertainment. That an altar, which is supposed to represent Chirst, could be so vested with frippery is a sure sign of the total absence of any religious sentiment or consciousness:

http://www.parishofdungannon.com/Fund%20Raising/Concert%2021%20Sept/pages/IMG_7547_jpg.htm

Some further examples of fine 18th. century French ironwork: this time, the bow fronted altar rail in the church of St. Michel in Bordeaux which mercifully survived the revolution and is still in place despite the liturgical vandalism of the 1970s and 1980s.

The nmedallion here depicts St. michael, the Archangel, patron of the church.

@Canus wrote:

Clonea Power Church is by JJ Mc Carthy C. 1860 , Is very impressive in its scale and location, in a beautiful part of Co Waterford behind the Comeraghs.

Plans do no reflect the quality of the church, particularly in blanket wall to wall instillation of ” polyfloor kudos whitle marble vinyl covering ” in scanturary and side chapels and large square “polyfloor vinyl tiles over ardex surface “in nave and aisles. Description is awful enough , just think what Pugin would say. No regard given to existing floor surfaces both original and exposed or currently covered over. McCarthy favoured small diagonal red and black tles in aisles. A church of this quality would be expected to have encaustic tiles in scanturay, which is currently carpeted.

Scantuary extension into nave is unneccessary

Can anyone visit ? Plans are on Waterford Co Co website ref 09/487

Photo on Co. Waterford Image Archive as follows :

Number : EB14

Title : Clonea-Power Church

Description : The front facade of Clonea-Power Church with a group of men standing outside. The church in Clonea-Power was built in 1860 at a cost of £6,000 by the Rev. Timothy Dowley, P.P.. The architect’s name was McCarthy.

Photographer : Brenan, Edward

Image Date : Circa 1910

Museum Contact : Fraher, Willie

Donor : Name Kept Private

Image Url : http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web?task=DisplayPrintableImage&displayimage=1&enc_id=K0rGZaHIv2s1A

Archive Url : http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web

Copyright : Co. Waterford Image Archive

Canus,

Is this the church we are talking about?

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=WA&regno=22802008

The church of Notre Dame, Bordeaux

Some further examples of very fine French 18th century metal work are to be found in the choir grille of Notre Dame in bordeaux and in the Baptistery of the same church.

They were done by Jean Moreau and are dated 1781:

The Baptistery:

I suppose in terms of the Cork County Conservation Office, these would be regarded as “gates”.

St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork

Another rather interesting view of the angles on G.C. Ashlin’s pulpit in Cobh Cathedrakl:

The Church of St Seve near Poitiers :