Selected: CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Name: | MADDEN, DOMINICK |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1827-1836 |
Nature: | Large cruciform church. Most of the tracery based on E window at Claregalway Franciscan friary. DM assisted by Peter Madden FS laid 3 Apr 1827. Consecrated 18 Aug 1836. (DM dismissed 1829) (High altar sent from Rome) |
Refs: | Catholic Directory (1836), 141; Catholic Directory (1837), 270; 'Report on the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tuam', 31 Dec 1837 (RIA Ordnance Survey MS, Box 28); APSD, T, 99; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 220-221, pls. 118,119; Patricia McCarthy & Kevin Mulligan, 'The hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 9 (2007), 98-108(illus.),131-132 |
Name: | MADDEN, PETER |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1827-1836 |
Nature: | Worked as 'architect in a subordinate capacity' under Dominick Madden. |
Refs: | [Peter Madden}, Letter to the Most Rev Dr Kelly on matters concerned with the building of the new RC Cathedral, Tuam (Dublin, 1830); Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 99-108(illus.),131-132 |
Name: | MURPHY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1827-1837 |
Nature: | TM paid £30 for model of same. |
Refs: | Letter from Thomas Murphy to Martin Blake, MP, Brooklodge, Galway, 26 Aug 1837, in NA, Blake of Ballyglunin papers M6936/38/293 (information from Kevin Mulligan); ; Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 100, 139n5.. |
Name: | MULLINS, BERNARD |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1829 |
Nature: | BM asked to act as consultant for completion of cathedral. |
Refs: | Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 104 |
Name: | O'CONNOR, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1835-37 |
Nature: | East window (and other glass?) by M. O'C. |
Refs: | RHA 1835, no. 260; 'Report on the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tuam', 31 Dec 1837 (RIA Ordnance Survey MS, Box 28) |
Name: | LEONARDI, GIUSEPPE *# |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1836 |
Nature: | Marble high altar and canopy, 'just finished at Rome'. |
Refs: | Catholic directory (1836), 141; 'Report on the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tuam', 31 Dec 1837 (RIA Ordnance Survey MS, Box 28) |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [2]* |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1836-37 |
Nature: | Cut stone work by WM, who was paid £664.9s.1d in 1838 for erecting tower, Roman altar and gate |
Refs: | Metropolitan Cathedral, Tuam: Report for the year 1837 (Tuam Herald, 1838) (copy in Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey MSS, Box 28) |
Name: | MURRAY, MARK [2] |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1836-37 |
Nature: | MM 'architect' responsible for ornamentation of cathedral. Cut stone work by his son William Murray, who was paid £664.9s.1d in 1838 for erecting tower, Roman altar and gate; stucco by John Daven, Galway; carved wood by John Burke, Tuam; stained glass by O'Connor, Dublin. |
Refs: | Metropolitan Cathedral Tuam: Report for the Year ending 1st February, 1832; Metropolitan Cathedral, Tuam: Report for the year ending 31 December 1837 (Tuam Herald, 1838) (copy in Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey MSS, Box 28); E.McP files cite O'Kelly Pamphlet 3484, which mentions design for window copied from a Glasgow model. |
Name: | DAVEN (OR DAVIN), JOHN * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1838 |
Nature: | JD paid £401 for stucco work on 20 Jan 1838. |
Refs: | Metropolitan Cathedral, Tuam: Report for the year 1837 (Tuam Herald, 1838) (copy in Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey MSS, Box 28) |
Name: | ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1883-84 |
Nature: | Works at same, incl. heating. For Most Rev. Dr John MacEvilly, Archbishop of Tuam. Builder: Joseph Kelly & Sons. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B12/29, A07, p.218 (Dec 1884); IB 25, 15 Dec 1883, 398 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Exterior pointing |
Refs: | IB 54, 25 May 1912, 321 (or 521?) |
Name: | BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Improvements & repairs. Tenders invited, Sep 1924. |
Refs: |
IB 66, 20 Sep,29 Nov 1924, 825,1018; Irish Builder, 25 Sep 1924. |
Name: | CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1929-30;1933;19 |
Nature: | Reroofing, 1929-30; proposed organ case, 1933; memorial, 1935. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74; IB 72, 1 Feb 1930, 111 |
Name: | BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1968 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for renovations |
Refs: | IB 110, 13 Jul 1968, 472 |
Name: | KING, RICHARD JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Stained glass (St Jarlath and St Patrick). |
Refs: | Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244 |