Name: |
CORBETT, WILLIAM EDWARD |
Building: |
CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN) |
Date: |
1876-1886 |
Nature: |
New church designed by W.E.C. Tenders invited, Apr 1875. FS laid 28 May 1876. Bulding begun, 1879. Builders: McCarthy & Guerin. Corinthian portico and most of nave erected, but church not completed until 1886.
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Freeman's Journal, 15,16,19 Apr 1875; North Munster Antiquarian Journal (1957), 1 (gives date as 1876); M. Craig & Knight of Glin, Ireland Observed(1970), 78 (gives date as 1879); Limerick Diocesan History Project, http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Franciscans/textFranciscans.htm (last visited, Apr 2012).
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Name: |
JONES & KELLY |
Building: |
CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN) |
Date: |
1928-1931 |
Nature: |
Extension and enlargment by addition of apse and sanctuary. Consecrated Dec 1931. Contractor: Michael Gough, Wolfe Tone St, Limerick. Apse not completed until 1942 when lands behind church were bought.
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Refs: |
IB 69, 10 Dec 1927, 920; Architect & Building News 120, 19 Oct 1928, 517; Irish Press, 2 Dec 1931; Limerick Diocesan History Project, http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Franciscans/textFranciscans.htm (last visited, Apr 2012).
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Name: |
OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: |
CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN) |
Date: |
1930s |
Nature: |
Mosaic work in Chapel of St Anthony (and sanctuary floor?).
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Refs: |
Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing advertisements in English Catholic Directory, 1931, 1934, and Irish Catholic Directory 1931.
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