Selected: CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, BARRACK STREET, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC)
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, BARRACK STREET, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1890-1895 |
Nature: | New cruciform church. Local stone from Dungannon and Dungiven. 3 marble altars by Pearse, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. FS laid 9 Nov 1890. Dedicated, 15 Sep 1895. Builder: Robert Collen, Portadown. Cost over £30,000. |
Refs: | B 59, 15 Nov 1890, 393; Irish Times, 16 Sep 1895; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 493; Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 709,712(illus.); Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 145(illus.) |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, BARRACK STREET, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaic work in sanctuary (including floor?) and side chapels. |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |