Selected: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Name: | LYNCH, JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1828 |
Nature: | Original plan by JL, but design taken over by T.A. Cobden, 1829. FS laid 18 Mar 1828. |
Refs: |
Carlow Morning Post, 10 Apr 1828; Curran MS dictionary of architects, which has reference to Comerford, Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin I, 103 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 120-21; John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 10. |
Name: | COBDEN, THOMAS ALFRED |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1829-1834 |
Nature: | New Gothic cathedral for Bishop James Doyle. TAC succeeds Joseph Lynch as architect, 1829. FS laid 18 Mar 1828. Dedicated 1 Dec 1833. . Cost £18,000. |
Refs: |
Specification, dated 11 Jun 1829, in Kildare & Leighlin Diocesan Archives (information from Rev. Thomas McDonnell); RA 1835, no. 915; J. Binns, Miseries and Beauties of Ireland (1837), 222-224; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 201-2; P.J. Brophy 'Braganza - its architect and first owner' in Carloviana Vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan 1949), 123; John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 10-11(illus.); Thomas McDonnell, 'Thomas A. Cobden, 1794-1842: an architect in Co. Carlow', Carlow History and Society (Dublin, 2008), 617-623(illus.). |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1837-39 |
Nature: | Marble group, executed in Rome, in memory of James Warren Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1786-1834). |
Refs: |
J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 201-2; B 16, 28 Aug 1858, 591; DB 5, 1 Feb 1863, 18; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 67(illus.),129-131; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 62-64(illus.). |
Name: | CASEY, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1848ca |
Nature: | 3-light altar window |
Refs: | Catholic Directory (1848), 563. |
Name: | BUCKLEY, MICHAEL JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM * |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Dr Comerford memorial pulpit. Executed by Pieter De Wispelaere, Bruges. |
Refs: | IB 41, 1 Nov,1 Dec 1899, 169,198(illus.); Paul Larmour, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Ireland (1992), 129; Carlow Cathedral 1833-1983, 24-25(illus.); Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 74,79. |
Name: | DE WISPELAERE, PIETER *# |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Executed pulpit to designs by Michael Joseph Cunningham Buckley, Youghal. |
Refs: |
Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 74,79, citing publicity booklet of P. De Wispelaere & Son. |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Proposed communion gates. |
Refs: |
Drawing, 1902, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman Collection, 76/1.178 |
Name: | SCOTT, ANTHONY |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for important alts. and adds. to designs of AS. |
Refs: | IB 55, 5 Jul 1913, 444; Building News 105, 18 Jul 1913, 76 |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaics. (Probably extensive, but lost in reordering.) |
Refs: |
Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca. |