Birmingham-based church-decorating firm, founded by John Hardman the younger (1811-1867) and closely associated with the architect AUGUSTUS WELBY PUGIN.& AUGUSTUS WELBY PUGIN.& #160; Hardman's of Birmingham produced decorative work and stained-glass windows predominantly for Roman Catholic churches in Britain and elsewhere. In Ireland these churches included Killarney cathedral, Armagh cathedral, Cobh cathedral, and St Cronan's church at Roscrea, Tipperary. The firm also carried out work for a number of Church of Ireland churches, most notably a series of stained-glass windows for Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. It continued to produce stained glass until the 1970s but was eventually wound up in 2008.
In 1853 THOMAS EARLEY THOMAS EARLEY , who had worked for Hardman's in England, France and Belgium, established a Dublin branch of the firm in association with John Hardman's young half-nephews Edward and HENRY POWELL HENRY POWELL . The original shop was at 48 Grafton Street, and by February 1860 a stone and wood-carving workshop had been established at 1 Upper Camden Street. The Grafton Street shop was abandoned between 1860 and 1863. In 1864 Hardman's gave up their connection with the Dublin business, which continued until the 1890s under the name of EARLEY & EARLEY & amp; POWELLS POWELLS and subsequently as EARLEY & EARLEY & amp; CO.
See WORKS, for Irish work only.
References
All information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, goldsmith and glasspainter (Landmark Publishing, 2008). Hardman's work for Ireland is discussed on pp. 135-139.
For the windows in Christ Church cathedral and other Church of Ireland churches, see Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location/results (last visited Jul 2009).
27 work entries listed in chronological order for HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
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CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, CATHEDRAL PLACE, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC) |
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1854-1855;1857;1859;1863;1867;1874;1908-13 |
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Metalwork, including cross, tabernacle and candleticks for high altar, benedicition candlesticks, thurible, processional cross, brass corona (1854-5); monumental brasses to 3rd Earl of Kenmare and to Countess of Kenmare (1857); metalwork screen for St Joseph's chapel (1859); proposed design for rood screen; stained -ass windows in Blerssed Sacrament chapel(1863), St Brendan's chapel (1867) and S transept (1874). Light fittings, 1908-13.
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Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, goldsmith and glasspainter (Landmark Publishing, 2008)., 136-7(illus.).
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CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC) |
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1860 |
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High altar, 'the largest & most elaborate erected in the United Kingdom since the Reformation'. |
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DB 2, 1 May 1860, 252; 3, 15 Nov,1 Dec 1861, 689, 698.
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI) |
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1860 |
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Pulpit in Chapel Royal. |
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DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 274; Myles Campbell, '"Throw open those privileged pens": The changing face of the Chapel Royal, 1815-2015' in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 133-134(illus.).
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE, CHAPEL ROYAL (CI) |
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1860 |
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Pulpit in Chapel Royal. |
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DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 274; Myles Campbell, '"Throw open those privileged pens": The changing face of the Chapel Royal, 1815-2015' in Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., Myles Campbell & William Derham, eds., The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History (Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015), 133-134(illus.).
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CO. CLARE, ENNIS, STATION ROAD, PRO-CATHEDRAL OF SS. PETER & PAUL (RC) |
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1860-61 |
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High altar, altar of the Sacred Heart and altar of Blessed Virgin erected to designs of JJM. Work executed by Hardman & Co, represented by Earley & Powell. Statues and sculpted groups designed by Powell. |
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DB 2, 1 Apr 1860, 240; 3, 15 Jul 1861, 577; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 60
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI) |
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1870s |
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Stained glass windows in nave, aisles and passage to Synod Hall executed by John Powell of Hardman & Co. |
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William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 28; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location/results (last visited Jul 2009); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335. .
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CO. CORK, MONKSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CI) |
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1874 |
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E window (double lancet representing Resurrection and Ascension) in memory of Amos Langton Newman.
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Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2602/results (last visited Jul 2009)
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CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI) |
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1877ca |
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3 pairs of lancet windows n N wall of nave (SS Peter and Matthew; SS Andrew and Bartholomew; SS John and James the Less) in memory of members of the Synnot family.
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Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3410/ (last visited, Mar 2014).
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CO. TYRONE, BERAGH, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, CLOGHERNY PARISH) |
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1879 |
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E window erected by Col. Preston, 1879, in memory of Rev.James Lowry (d. 1852). |
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Date on plaque in church (information from Dr David Lawrence, Gladestry, Powys, Jul 2012); R. Dougherty, Historical Notes on the Parish of Clougherny (Belfast, n.d.), 20; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 147
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CO. CORK, COBH, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (RC) |
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1880-93;1898-99 |
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Glass for windows in clerestory, apse, south and north transepts, and west rose window, 1898-9. Also windows above Sacred Heart Altar.
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St Colman's Cathedral, Queenstown (1916), 17; Jesse Castle Metlitski and Richard Oram, Report on Cobh Cathedral for Carrig Conservation, Dublin (2001) (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork); S transept and baptistery windows illus. in Ann Wilson, 'The building of St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 7 (2004), 248,250,251; Ann Wison, 'The Gothic Revival in Ireland: St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh (1868-1916)', Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 11.2 (2007), 32(illus.)36(illus.),37(illus.).
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CO. DUBLIN, RATHMICHAEL, CHURCH (CI) |
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1889 |
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Stained-glass window in N aisle (Our Lord Enthroned).
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Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2372/results (last visited Jul 2009).
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CO. GALWAY, CLONFERT, CATHEDRAL OF ST BRENDAN (CI) |
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1897 |
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Pair of stained-glass windows (St Peter & St Paul) in E wall of chancel.. Gift of thomas Roderic O'Connor 'in thankful memory of the Diamond Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897'.
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Irish Times, 21 Oct,12 Dec 1898; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2510/results (last visited Jul 2009);
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CO. WICKLOW, CONARY, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI) |
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1898a |
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3 stained-glass windows: St Bartholomew (baptistry), Parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan (north wall of nave), Parable of the Sower (vestry).(Wicklow Newsletter d windows.). Also Caen stone reredos, supplied by Mrs Clerke, London, wife of rector, Rev. John Moore Robinson.
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Wicklow Newsletter, 5 Nov 1898; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2361/results (last visited Jul 2009)
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CO. WICKLOW, CONARY, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI) |
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1898a |
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3 stained-glass windows: St Bartholomew (baptistry), Parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan (north wall of nave), Parable of the Sower (vestry).(Wicklow Newsletter d windows.). Also Caen stone reredos, supplied by Mrs Clerke, London, wife of rector, Rev. John Moore Robinson.
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Wicklow Newsletter, 5 Nov 1898; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2361/results (last visited Jul 2009)
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CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
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1900-1905 |
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Decorative scheme, including mosaics. by Gabriel Pippet. Also 2 stained-glass windows in N nave aisle, nearest transepts (date not known?). |
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Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral (1904), 25; Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, goldsmith and glasspainter (Landmark Publishing, 2008), 138; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 113,Pl.88.
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CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI) |
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Stained-glass E window given by the Rev. William Wilkinson in memory of John & Mary Wilkinson.
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Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2607/results (last visited Jul 2009).
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