1832 – Adare Manor, Co. Limerick
Architect: James Pain
Adare Manor was not always so imposing.
Adare Manor was not always so imposing.
In 1840 a local fundraising committee commissioned Augustus Welby Pugin to design a new cathedral,
A large Gothic church both in architectural style and for its dark brooding presence.
“A general prospect of the Royal College of St Patrick,
It was at The Grange that Pugin produced much of his finest work,
Originally built in 1185 by King John,
This is Pugin’s only intact and essentially unaltered building in Australia.
To appease the Irish bishops after the foundation of the three “godless”
A monumental cathedral, the largest building in Ireland to designs prepared by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) reputedly based on Tintern Abbey in Wales.
Originally was to be designed after a competition by J.J.