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CARPENTER, RICHARD HERBERT #
- Born: 1841 Died: 1893
English architect, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 336. Richard Herbert Carpenter was the son of RICHARD CROMWELL CARPENTER . In 1863 he was taken into partnership by his father's former assistant WILLIAM SLATER to form the firm of SLATER & CARPENTER . After Slater's death Carpenter took BENJAMIN INGELOW into partnership and worked with him on the restoration of St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, in 1886-90.
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1 work entries listed in chronological order for CARPENTER, RICHARD HERBERT #
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Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL CLOSE, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
Date: | 1886-90 |
Nature: | Partial restoration by RHC & Benjamin Ingelow comprising new floor, new heating system, restoration of choir and transept roofs, new W porch. Choir fittings (bishop's throne and canopy and carved choir stalls) carried out by Bowdler & Co., Shrewsbury. |
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RHA 1890, no. 1789; Architect ?, 2 May 1887, 326; IB 30, 1 Oct,1 Dec 1888, 249,300; B 59, ? Sep 1890, 247(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 99.103. |