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New Early English church to seat 1,200 persons built on old Franciscan foundation. With R.M. Butler. FS laid 29 Sep 1895. Builder: Andrew Cullen, New Ross. £25000. High altar, side altar, communion rail, altar steps, ex. by Edmund Sharp, 1901, £2000. Carving throughout church executed by J.A. O'Connell, St Patrick's Works, Cork.. |
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Printed testimonial from Canon Michael Kavanagh in IAA, Butler Collection, Acc. 85/107; see also IAA Butler Collection, Acc. 85/107, Notebooks 9, 13 and photo album 2; Wicklow Newsletter, 3 Feb 1794; IB 36, 15 Apr,1 Oct 1894, 97,229; 37, 15 May,15 Sep 1895, 131,218; 43, 30 Jan,27 Mar,10 Apr,15 May,5 Dec 1901, 607,677(illus.),?,966; 44, 30 Jan,9 Oct 1902, 1021,1440(illus. in supplement); B 82, 22 Mar 1902, 296; 83, 4 Oct 1902, 303; Building News 83, 10 Oct 1902, 505; designs exh. at RHA 1901, no. 306, 1903, no. 237 (Doolin, Butler & Donnelly); Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, 69-75, Figs. 5:11-15; Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 105(illus.).
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