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As far as I can make out from the webpage (http://www.foscc.com) the matter is still pending with An Bord Pleanala.
Garett,
You may wishto look up the Window tax. It replaced the Hearth tax under William III in 1696 and taxed houses on the number of their windows. The tax varied from time to time and on the basis of the number and size of windows. It was abolished in 1851 and replaced by a House tax. The window tax gave rise to the English expression “daylight robbery”.
The spire of St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork, to the pinnacle of the cross, is 300 feet.
The spire, designed by Ashlin and Coleman, was built by John Maguire of Cork. The copper cross was raised in March 1915. The clock and the carillon of 52 bells were installed in May 1916.
The text of Cardinal Ratzinger’s letter to Bishop Ryan of Kildare and Leighlin (12 June 1996) was published in the Carlow Nationalist on 10 January 1997 – having been requisitioned by the High Court. The full text is available on the internet at; htpp://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/1998/cot1998p10_544.html. The tragedy is that what has happend in churches throughout Ireland was liturgically needless.
An interesting summary on liturgical requirement is available on the news section of the webpage of the Friends of St. Colman’s Cathedral (http://www.foscc.com) prepared for An Bord Pleanala by Arthur Cox.
As is clear from the case of Cobh Cathedral, Diocesan Historic Church Committees are a complete farce. In this case, the Historic Church Committe of the diocese of Cloyne, mostly made up of unqualified persons, did not even bother to conduct a heritage impact study of the proposed changes on the interior of the building.
