Selected: CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BRIDE STREET, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Name: | PIERCE, RICHARD [1] |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BRIDE STREET, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1851-1858 |
Nature: | One of 'twin' churches in Wexford (see also Church of Immac. Conception, Rose St). FS laid 27 Jun 1851. First mass celebrated, 18 Apr 1858. Dedicated, 11 Sep 1859. Consecrated 9 Sep 1860. J.J. McCarthy architect after RP's death. Ceiling painting: Earley, Dublin. Contractor: Willis. |
Refs: |
B 9, 3 May 1851, 281; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 123; 18, 29 Sep,13 Oct 1860, 628,662; 16, 27 Mar 1858, 712; DB 2, 1 Oct 1860, 352; A Centenary record of [Wexford] town churches (1958), 82,86,100,129; Barry O'Leary, 'Richard Pierce: Architect and Acolyte of the Gothic Revival' in Journal of the Wexford Historical Society No. 20 (2004-2005), 87-90; Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 137(illus.). |
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BRIDE STREET, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1858-1860 |
Nature: | Work on twin churches of Wexford designed by Richard Pierce, taken over by JJM after Pierce's death. Dedicated, Sep 1859. Consecrated 9 Sep 1860. |
Refs: | B 16, 27 Mar 1858, 214; 18, 29 Sep,13 Oct 1860, 628,662; 19, DB 2, 1 Oct 1860, 352; Wexford Independent, 11 Sep 1859, 12 Sep 1860 (information kindly supplied by Conor O'Brien, Annacurra, Co. Wicklow) Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 51 |
Name: | CLARKE, HARRY * |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BRIDE STREET, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1919 |
Nature: | 2-light window: BVM & Child |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 78 |
Name: | CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BRIDE STREET, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1926-28 |
Nature: | New mortuary chapel. Tenders for erecing same, Mar 1926. |
Refs: |
Photocopies of photographs in IAA, Jones File C167(ii); Irish Times, 25 Mar 1926. |