Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, EMLY, CATHEDRAL OF ST ALIBIUS (CI)

Name: ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, EMLY, CATHEDRAL OF ST ALIBIUS (CI)
Date:
Nature: Construction of cathedral designed by James Pain supervised by CFA.
Refs: Daniel Wilson Randle,' A Question of Style: the Architectural Competition for the Central Building for the University of the South' (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978),241.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, EMLY, CATHEDRAL OF ST ALIBIUS (CI)
Date: 1790
Nature: RM submits estimate for repairing, which is accepted. Mentioned with T. Loobey in accounts.
Refs: Estimate, Sep 1790, in Hampshire Record Office, Normanton Papers, 21M57 B14/6.

Name: LOOBY, THOMAS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, EMLY, CATHEDRAL OF ST ALIBIUS (CI)
Date: 1790ca
Nature: TL mentioned (with Richard Morrison) in accounts.
Refs: Hampshire Record Office, Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, EMLY, CATHEDRAL OF ST ALIBIUS (CI)
Date: 1826-27
Nature: Rebuilding of old cathedral 'in the later English style, with a lofty spire..at the expense of £2521.11.9, defrayed from a surplus of the economy fund which had been for several years acculmulating for that purpose' (Lewis).  Work supervised by Charles Frederick Anderson. (Demolished 1877)
Refs: Limerick Chronicle, 12 Aug 1826; APSD, P, 6; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 599; St John D. Seymour, The Diocese of Emly (1913), ? (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Daniel Wilson Randle,' A Question of Style: the Architectural Competition for the Central Building for the University of the South' (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978), 241; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 140-141(illus.),162(illus.),163.