Name: |
BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: |
CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC) |
Date: |
1889-91 |
Nature: |
New church in Early English style on site of earlier church. FS laid 1889. Dedicated 15 Mar 1891. Design for 2 side altars, 1891, executed. by Edmund Sharp, Dublin. (same as that for church at Cahir, Co. Tip). for Dean Matthew Finn. Estimated cost, £4,000.
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Refs: |
Designs formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Architect 41, 18 Jan 1889, suppl. p.3; B 60, 21 Mar 1891, 236; Edmund Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 18; Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 95(illus.).
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Name: |
KING, RICHARD JOSEPH * |
Building: |
CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC) |
Date: |
1953 |
Nature: |
Stations of the cross, 1953; stained glass in sanctuary window (Assumption, St John Evangelist, St Patrick), 1950, rose window (Holy Trinity) and another window (scenes from Old & New Testaments). |
Refs: |
Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244; Ruth Sheehy, 'The art of Richard King (1907-1974) in Swinford and Newport, Co. Mayo', Cathair na Mart: Journal of the Westport Historical Society No. 27 (2009), 30-47(illus.).
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