Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Name: | BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1843;1854-1857 |
Nature: | New cruciform Gothic cathedral for diocese of Ossory, with tower at crossing. FS laid 18 (or 20?) Aug 1843. Consecrated 4 Oct 1857. Clerk of works: Cody. Total cost £25,000. Completed by unassisted voluntary subscription, amounting to £28,000. High altar 'an elaborate specimen, brought from one of the principal manufactories in Rome'. |
Refs: | Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 20 (Nov 1857), 379, 21 (1858), 34; George Henry Bassett, Kilkenny City and County (1884), 45; P.M. Egan,The illustrated guide to the city and county of Kilkenny[1884?], 249; B 12, 7 Jan 1854, 6; 15, 17 Oct,5 Dec 1857, 596,71. 21 (1858), 34 |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | Decoration of interior. Apse painted azure powdered with gold. Chancel ceiling has crimson ground with gold foliage, gilt cornice, pictorial panels on ceiling & walls, also geometric designs. Lady Chapel is largely azure, ceiling powdered with gold stars, inscriptions in mediaeval lettering. St Joseph's chapel has walls of grey purple with blue geometric forms & gold monograms &c. |
Refs: | DB 8, 1 Nov 1866, 258-9 |
Name: | BUTLER, JOHN STERLING |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | New reredos to be erected. Tenders sought. |
Refs: | DB 8, 1 Jun 1866, 147 |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1874 |
Nature: | Communion rail. |
Refs: | Tracing of design for same, Sep 1874, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.102/1 |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Extensive additions, including new sacrisities and cloister with conference room above. |
Refs: | Drawings by WHB, 1888, in W.H. Byrne & Son collection (folder 108) |
Name: | ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1891ca |
Nature: | Sacred Heart altar. |
Refs: | Design exh. RHA 1891, no. 500 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | WHB to succeed Hague as architect. (Completion celebrated, 9 Apr 1899.) |
Refs: | IB 41, 15 Jul 1899, 84 |
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1924-1929 |
Nature: | Repairs and alts.; restoration; work on grounds. Builder: Cullen, Kilkenny? |
Refs: |
Designs, dated 1929, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; 2 rolls of drawings in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access); IB 66, 17 May 1924, 446; 2 |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1932a |
Nature: | Mosaic figure panels over high altar (and sanctuary floor?). |
Refs: |
Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing advertisement in Irish Catholic Directory (1932). |
Name: | BENZONI, GIOVANNI MARIA *# |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'At the left of the Lady Chapel stands a colossal statue of the Virgin, in Carrara marble, executed by Benzoni, and the gift of the ladies of the parish.' |
Refs: | George Henry Bassett, Kilkenny City and County (1884), 41 |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 2 marble angels holding baptismal fonts in the shape of scallop sheld on each side of chancel arch by 'the younger Hogan'. |
Refs: | George Henry Bassett, Kilkenny City and County (1884), 43 |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 3-light window presented by Alderman Cullen, JP (The Assumption); 6 single-light windows in apse erected at expense of Dr Walshe, Bishop of Ossory (The Prophets); 2-light windows in side chapels. |
Refs: | George Henry Bassett, Kilkenny City and County (1884), 54 (advertisement) |