Name: |
PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE # |
Building: |
CO. WEXFORD, BARNTOWN, CHURCH OF ST ALPHONSUS (RC) |
Date: |
1844-1851 |
Nature: |
New church based on design of mediaeval church at Stanton, Cambridgeshire. E. window, made by Hardman & Co. to Pugin's design, presented by J. Hyacinth Talbot. FS laid 1844. FS laid Jul 1844. Mass celebrated for first time 8 Oct 1848. Dedicated 8 Sep 1851, but church not consecrated until 12 Sep 1899. (Screen has been removed and some of original glass replaced.) |
Refs: |
Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 202; R. O'Donnell, 'The Pugins in Ireland' in P.Atterbury, ed., A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival (Yale, 1995), 136(illus.),145; Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 77(illus.).
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