Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.