1832 – Adare Manor, Co. Limerick
Adare Manor was not always so imposing. In the 1820s the building was a refined Georgian house,
Adare Manor was not always so imposing. In the 1820s the building was a refined Georgian house,
In 1840 a local fundraising committee commissioned Augustus Welby Pugin to design a new cathedral,
A large Gothic church both in architectural style and for its dark brooding presence.
“A general prospect of the Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth and the proposed additions”.
It was at The Grange that Pugin produced much of his finest work, sitting in his library high on the chalk cliffs overlooking the Goodwin Sands and working at prodigious speed.
Originally built in 1185 by King John,
This is Pugin’s only intact and essentially unaltered building in Australia. In its layout and permanent liturgical furnishings””piscina,
To appease the Irish bishops after the foundation of the three “godless” colleges in Dublin,
A monumental cathedral, the largest building in Ireland to designs prepared by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) reputedly based on Tintern Abbey in Wales.
Originally was to be designed after a competition by J.J. McCarthy in 1846. The project was abandoned due to the Famine.