Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN)
Name: | BENSON, JOHN (SIR) |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN) |
Date: | 1845-1848;1852 |
Nature: | New church built 1845-48 to replace church of 1763 on Pound St.. Tower added 1852. (Church later largely demolished, but E end retained.) |
Refs: | Survey drawings, 1955, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; T. Kilgannon, Sligo and its Surroundings (1926), 127-8; Terence O'Rorke, History of the parishes of Ballysadare & Kilvarnet (Dublin, 1878), 126 |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN) |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Communion railing and mosaic work. (Church later demolished but mosaic for chancel gable survives.) |
Refs: | Tracing of design for communion railing, dated Nov 1899, and undated, perhaps later, designs for mosaic work (for Fr. Costello, Prior) in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.151/1-6 |