Selected: CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, ST JOHN'S BASILICA (RC)
Name: | JONES, JOHN [1] |
Building: | CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, ST JOHN'S BASILICA (RC) |
Date: | 1838ca |
Nature: | '[Bishop Michael Anthony] Fleming consulted Irish architects John Jones, J.M. Butler, William Deane [Butler] and German architect C. Schmidt concerning the plans for the building. Information based on documents found in Rome indicate that Fleming finally based his cathedral on plans prepared by the architect of the Danish Government, a Mr. C. Schmidt at Altona on the Elbe, just outside Hamburg [i.e. Ole Joergen Schmidt].' |
Refs: | Newfoundland Registered heritage structures (http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/rs_listing/102.html) (but cf. account of this building in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_St._John_the_Baptist, which would appear to be incorrect |
Name: | PAPWORTH, GEORGE |
Building: | CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, ST JOHN'S BASILICA (RC) |
Date: | 1849 |
Nature: | Design for altarpiece dedicated to SS John & Francis exh. RHA. |
Refs: | RHA 1849, no. 404 |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, ST JOHN'S BASILICA (RC) |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | Marble reliefs ('Dr Fleming entrusting his diocese to Dr Mullock' and 'Dr Scallan receiving the last rites from Dr Fleming his successor'). Marble statue of Dead Christ probably a studio replica. |
Refs: | John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome, (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 139-141,172. |