Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of London, for whom see Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, [1968]), 24-28.   John Bacon the elder was the sculptor of the fine monument to James Dennis (d. 1782), first and last Baron Tracton, which was formerly in the Church of Ireland church of St Nicholas, Cork, and is now (2010) in the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.  The monument, dating from 1788, consists of a large statue of a standing female figure with right arm oustretched; a roundel on the base depicts Lord Tracton on his deathbed, attended by his wife, who attempts to ward off the skeletal arm of Death.(1) 



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(1) Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 35; for photographs of the monument in situ in the church, see T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 32, and Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 98.


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Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COVE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI, OLD)
Date: 1788
Nature: Monument to James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton (d. 1782).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 35; for photographs of the monument in situ in the church, see T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 32, and Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 98.
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Building: CO. ARMAGH, MULLAGHBRACK (OR MULLABRACK), CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1790p
Nature: Monument to the Rev. John Jones (d. 1790).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan,The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 446.