Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Name: | COTTINGHAM, LEWIS NOCKALLS # |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1837 |
Nature: | LNC asked to furnish plans for same, but commission given to Thomas Duff instead. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 109 |
Name: | DUFF, THOMAS J. [1] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1840 |
Nature: | Original plans by TD; 34 feet of walls built, costing £26,000. Clerk of works, William Marron. Work finished after TD's death by J.J. McCarthy. |
Refs: |
'Document relating to the building of the Cathedral' (copy of original minute book in Bishop's Palace, Armagh) in ?; B 9, 21 Jun 1851, 393; DB 5, 1 Feb,15 Apr 1863, 16,65; 6, 1 Oct 1864, 199; IB 15, 1 Sep 1873, 230; 18, 1 May 1876, 133; Architect 10, 23 Aug 1873, 95; design published as frontispiece to Rev. John Gallogly, History of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1880); Guide to St Patrick's Cathdral, Armagh (1904), 64; Paul Larmour, 'That eminent and tasteful architect', Perspective7, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1998), 61(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 109-11. |
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1854-1873 |
Nature: | Completion of building begun by Thomas Duff. Thomas Byrne, Belfast, wins tender for roofing &c.(£9,896) Spires completed to his design after his death. |
Refs: |
B 9, 21 Jun 1851, 393; 12, 7 Jan,18 Nov 1854, 6-7,594; 14, 17 May 1856, 278; 18, ? ? 1860, 558; 20, 20 Sep 1862, 685; 31, 16 Aug,6 Sep 1873, 652,702; Irish Times, 24 May 1859; DB 1, 1 Aug,1 Sep,1 Oct 1859, 103,118,133; 4, 15 Jul,1 Aug 1862, 175,198; 5, 1,15 Apr 1863, 63(illus.),65; IB 15, 1 Sep 1873, 230; 16, 15 Sep 1874, 312(illus.); 18, 1 May 1870, 133; 46, 30 Jul 1904, ?; Jubilee No. 1909, 10(illus.); Irish Times, 24 May 1859; Architect 10, ? ? 1873, 95; RHA 1862, no. 322; Guide to St Patrick's Cathdral, Armagh (1904), 64; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 17(illus.),39-42(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 110-12, Pls.80,81.. |
Name: | BYRNE, THOMAS [3]* |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1854-1873 |
Nature: | TB contractor for J.J. McCarthy's design |
Refs: | Armagh Guardian, 19,26 Aig 1859; DB 5, 15 Apr 1863, 65. |
Name: | HERBERT & CO.*# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1875 |
Nature: | 14 plaster stations of the cross. Cost: £200. Copyright retained by H & Co. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904). |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1879;1904 |
Nature: | E window (Crucifixion) in memory of Archbishops Crolly & Dixon, 1879. Also 3 other windows, 1904. Sculpted figures in arcade and niches (date?). |
Refs: |
Belfast Observer 1 Nov 1879, quoted in J. Gallogly, History of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1880), 127; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), ?; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113. |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1884-86 |
Nature: | Gates & lodge. Contractor: Robert Cullen (sic), Portadown. |
Refs: |
Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 64; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113. |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1891 |
Nature: | New vestry. |
Refs: | Architect 46, 11 Dec 1891, supplement p.6; IB 33, 15 Dec 1891, 288 |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1894-1897 |
Nature: | Sacristy & synod hall. Contractor: James McAdorey, Dundalk. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 15,54,64; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113. |
Name: | MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Marble rood screen behind high altar designed by William Hague continued by T.F. McNamara after WH's death. Executant Prof. Pietro Lazzarini, Carrara. |
Refs: | Guide to Armagh Cathedral (1904), 64 |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Rood screen behind high altar. Continued by T.F. McNamara after WH's death. Executant Prof. Pietro Lazzarini, Carrara. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), ?,64 |
Name: | MEDICI, PAOLO *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900-02ca |
Nature: | High altar, BVM altar & pulpit executed in studio of PM to designs by Ashlin & Coleman. |
Refs: | B 87, 6 Aug 1904, 161; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 27,46. |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900-1902;1909 |
Nature: | Stone groining to aisles, side chapels, towers, wall & ceiling decoration, 5 altars, screens, throne, Lady Chapel, pulpit, organ gallery, communion rail, choir pavement, porches, font &c. Also decorative scheme for synod hall stair hall? Contractor (1901): James Kiernan. |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.8; IAA, PKS 0831, A08 (Apr 1901); IB 43, 6, 20 Jun 1901, 751, 767; 46, 30 Jul 1904, 474; B 67, 6 Jun 1904, 161; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 64; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113. |
Name: | HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900-1905 |
Nature: | Decorative scheme, including mosaics. by Gabriel Pippet. Also 2 stained-glass windows in N nave aisle, nearest transepts (date not known?). |
Refs: |
Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 25; Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, goldsmith and glasspainter (Landmark Publishing, 2008), 138; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113,Pl.88. |
Name: | WOOLISCROFT, GEORGE & SONS *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Mosaic decoration of Lady Chapel, side chapels & aisles to designs by G.C. Ashlin. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 65 |
Name: | BEAKEY, PATRICK * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Executed organ case, choir stalls, cardinal's & throne seats. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh |
Name: | AMICI, ORESTE *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Ceiling paintings |
Refs: | IB 46, 24 Sep 1904, 618; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 27 |
Name: | CLARKE, JOSHUA * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Responsible for execution of enamelled timber canopy over pulpit, designed by Ashlin |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 46,65 |
Name: | AURELI, CESARE *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Figures on front of high altar, after Leonardo's Last Supper; statue of Sacred Heart on Sacred Heart altar. (Last Supper relief transferred to St Peter's church, Stonebridge, Kilmore, when sanctuary was reordered post Vatican II.) |
Refs: | B 87, 6 Aug 1904, 161; IB 46, 13 Aug 1904, 506; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 24,29. |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900p |
Nature: | Mosaic decoration of nave, spandrils of crossing, transepts, tower porches and passage floors. |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.8; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 64; Oppenheimer brochures,1905ca and 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013 ). |
Name: | TRIPISCIANO, MICHELE *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1900p |
Nature: | 3 marble bas relief groups in antependium of Lady Altar (Presentation of BVM, Assumption, Coronation) |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (2nd ed., 1905), 37 |
Name: | VENTURI, DAVIDE, & SON *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Choir screens, the Cardinal's throne, the organ gallery front, the (side?) altar railings and altar pavements. |
Refs: | Design for pavement in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection?; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 28. |
Name: | RUFFONONI, - *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1901ca |
Nature: | Executed St Brigid & St Joseph altars to designs by Ashlin & Coleman. also frontal of Sacred Heart altar. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 28,29 |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1902-1909 |
Nature: | Further works, including choir stalls, pulpit, grand organ at W end (manufactured by Beakey & Co., Stafford St, Dublin), oak porches at W door (executed by James McAdorey, Dundalk).. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.8/1-260; Irish Times, 14 Jun 1904; IB 46, 18,30 Jul,13 Aug 1904, 386,473-4(illus. with drawing of pulpit & photo. of mosaic work), 506; Building News 87, 12 Aug,ll Nov 1904, 211-2(illus.),675-6(illus.). |
Name: | MCCARTHY, CHARLES JAMES |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Restoration and embellishment for Cardinal Logue. Consecrated by Papal Legate Jul 1904.(But cf. Ashlin & Coleman) |
Refs: | Building News 87 29 Jul 1904, 143; B 87, 6 Aug 1904, 161 |
Name: | PURDY & MILLARD * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | 1904a |
Nature: | 'framework' of Lady Altar. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 27? |
Name: | LAZZERINI, PIETRO *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Rood screen and statue of Dr McGettigan in front of cathedral executed by PL. Also statues of 11 faithful apostles and Archbishops Crolly & McGettigan on entrance front. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 27,56 (for photograph of statue of Dr McGettigan, see T. O Fiaich, St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Irish Heritage Series, No. 58, 1987), Pl. 13); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 111. |
Name: | MAYER & CO. *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | All windows except E. window, 3 smaller ones in chancel, 2 windows nearest transept in N aisle of nave. |
Refs: |
Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 25; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113. |
Name: | SMYTH, GEORGE [2] * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'Much of his fine work adorns our churches and cathedrals - notably in Queenstown and Armagh.' |
Refs: | Letter from Edmund Burke, MA, in IB 63, 2 Jul 1921, 449 |
Name: | MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'The passages are laid with mosaic, worked out from a very beautiful design of Mr. McNamara's, embracing Celtic interlaced work from the Book of Kells and other ancient iluminated Irish MSS.' |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (2nd ed., 1905), 59 |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Sculpted figures in arcade and niches of BVM altar. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 27 |
Name: | EARLEY, JOHN BISHOP * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Cartoons to spandrils of crossings. Archts: Ashlin & Coleman. Mosaic work by Oppenheimer & Co., Manchester. |
Refs: | Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 20 |