Selected: CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | 1877-79 |
Nature: | New church. Gothic to harmonize with neighbouring mediaeval priory. Tenders invited, Jun 1877. FS laid, 29 Jun 1879. Contractor: Walsh, Foynes. Decoration by Eugene Daly, Cork. |
Refs: |
RHA 1878, no. 581; Irish Times, 9,16,23 Jun 1877, 30 Jun 1879 IB 20, 15 Aug 1878, 239(illus.); 43, 7 Nov 1901, 928,930; Stratten's Directory (1892); Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 10(illus.),27(illus.),32(illus.),49(illus.),67; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983),502; National Inventoryof Architectural Heritage https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21813015/saints-peter-and-pauls-roman-catholic-church-kilmallock-kilmallock-limerick (illus.); Dolores Mullins, 'A Legacy in Stone: the architectural heritage of Michael Walsh, a Foynes bulding contractor', Old Limerick Journal 54 (Winter, 2019), 57 (illus.) |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | 1887-1893;1900 |
Nature: | GCA becomes architect for church after death of J.J. McCarthy in 1884. Various works (benches, holy water stoup, hinges on outside doors, communion gates, lavatory in sacristy, &c.). Contractor: James Newstead.. |
Refs: |
Drawings, some dated 1887-1893 and 1900, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.108; B 43, 7 Nov 1901, 930; Dolores Mullins, 'A Legacy in Stone: the architectural heritage of Michael Walsh, a Foynes bulding contractor', Old Limerick Journal 54 (Winter, 2019), 7. |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | 1910-11 |
Nature: | Font, baptistry screens, mosaic work. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.108 |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaic work in sanctuary and side chapels. |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | High altar, communion rail, mosaic pavement, 2 side altars, new sacristy, tower and spire erected by GCA after death of J.J. McCarthy. High altar and interior carving executed by Edmund Sharp. |
Refs: | IB 43, 7 Nov 1901, 928,930; Edmund Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 22 |
Name: | BRACKEN, JOSEPH K. * |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'Examples of the firm's design and work include...[the memorial] to the 'Manchester martyrs' in Kilrush.' |
Refs: |
Entry by Nancy Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 757. |