Construction on St. Mary’s Cathedral started in the 12th century, and was completed around 1194. The full title of this Cathedral is the “Cathedral and Parochial Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary”.
Now a lot smaller than at completion after the Earl of Meath demolished most of the entrance front in the 1950s when the building was discovered to be infested with dry-rot.
Work on the present cathedral began in 1858, and it was designed by the English architect William Slater.
A large and elaborate Church of Ireland, unusually so, as their churches tended to be more understated.
St Mary’s Church of Ireland was completed in 1868 to a design by the London architect William Slater.
Published in The Building News 1872. Architectural partnership formed between William Slater & Richard Herbert Carpenter in 1863 and continuing until Slater’s death in 1872.
The original Holdenby Palace was completed in 1583 and was one of the largest houses in England,
Richard Herbert Carpenter was born in July 1841, the son of the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter, and was educated at Charterhouse.
