Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1865-1872 |
Nature: | New cathedral For Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel. Cost: £45,000. |
Refs: | IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; IAA, PKS L1 (p.837-840); RHA 1876, no. 277; IB 19, 1 Sep 1877, 254 (illus.); Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 63,65(illus.) |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1867 |
Nature: | Colossal Portland stone statues of the Virgin, St Patrick and St Albert for W gable have been executed.. |
Refs: | IB 9, 15 Oct 1867, 277 |
Name: | CHAPMAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1871 |
Nature: | JC engaged in 'altering, finishing and improving' high altar tabernacle which had been sent from Rome (later discovered to have come from the Gesù and probably the work of Giacomo della Porta). |
Refs: | IB 13, 15 Nov, 1 Dec 1871, 299,307;. oseph D.C. Mashek, 'The original high altar tabernacle of the Gesù rediscovered', Burlington Magazine 112 (Feb 1970), 110-111. |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1877-79 |
Nature: | Archbishop's throne, pulpit, communion railing, altar baldachino,stalls, &c. |
Refs: | Drawings, most dated 1878-79, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.155/1-13; |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaic work (sanctuary floor?). |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | Oak screens being carried out by James Hicks,nLower Pembroke St, Dublin. |
Refs: | IB 69, 10 Dec 1927, 920 |