Selected: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
Date: | 1848-1858 |
Nature: | JJM wins competiton 1846, project then abandoned probably due to famine; project reopened 1851 & design revised by A.W.N. Pugin. FS laid 1 or 13Apr 1852. . Consecrated 25 Aug 1858. Early Decorated Gothic. Chancel window by Barff. |
Refs: | RHA 1851, no. 312; B 10, 8 May,23 Oct 1852, 300,677; 16, 25 Aug,4 Sep 1858, 539,607; DB 1, 1 Oct 1859, 133; Catholic Registry (1853), 320); Patrick K. Egan, St Michael's, Ballinasloe: Centennial Souvenir (1958), 4,6,8,10; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 35-36 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
Date: | 1912 |
Nature: | Extensive repairs |
Refs: | IB 54, 13,27 Apr 1912, 227,234,241 |
Name: | CLARKE, HARRY * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
Date: | 1925 |
Nature: | Stained-glass window: St Patrick & St Rose of Lima |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 56 |
Name: | POWER, ALBERT GEORGE * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
Date: | 1928a |
Nature: | High altar in Connemara marble with white marble figure of dead Christ beneath. Also altar furnishings (except tabernacle door) |
Refs: |
Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 399; illus. in illus. in Dara O' Conaola, Saol agus Saothar: Albert Power (Ceardshiopa Inis Oirr Teo, 19, 1996), 59. |
Name: | BARFF, FREDERICK SETTLE * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Stained glass window in apse. |
Refs: |
B 16, 4 Sep 1858, 607; photographs in |