1934 – Design for National Cathedral, Merrion Square, Dublin
In 1930 the Archdiocese of Dublin bought the park in Merrion Square from the Fitzwilliam estate,
In 1930 the Archdiocese of Dublin bought the park in Merrion Square from the Fitzwilliam estate,
The original Cathedral of the diocese of Kilmore was situated about four miles south of Cavan town in the present parish of Kilmore.
Lutyens’ unrealised vision for a re-arranged Liverpool centred around his uncompleted cathedral. The cathedral would have been a massive classical/Byzantine structure in brick and granite that would have become the second-largest church in the world.
The cathedral’s famous stained glass windows, created by artist Leo Mol depict the history of the Ukrainian Catholic church.
The last large Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in Ireland, and quite possibly the oddest in design.
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.
These are the fourth and fifth churches built on this site since 1818. The fourth church or cathedral was built in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1968.
Carlos V was the first king to express an interest in constructing a cathedral in Madrid,
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels replaced the smaller former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana,
Construction of the Romanesque Cathedral of St Martin in Lucca, Italy, was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm,