CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 12th August 2000
From: The RCB
Library
Email: RCB Library
Volume on Christ Church Architecture Published
In association with the recently published history of Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, Four Courts Press has been producing a series of
supplementary volumes which are intended to make available in a fuller
form some of the important source material which was used in the
history. The seventh, and penultimate, volume in this series is now
available.
George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin contains a number of essential texts relating to the
extensive restoration of the cathedral in the 1870s - reports by the
architect, George Edmund Street, on the works which he proposed to
undertake, extracts from the Irish Builder on the progress of the
work, correspondence concerning the treatment of the memorials, and
comments on the stained glass. The largest section is a reprint of
Street's account of the cathedral architecture which was published in
1882.
The texts in the volume are enlivened by the addition of black and
white plates and illustrations - views of the cathedral as a whole and
parts of its interior, pictures of furnishings, tiles and windows,
details of mouldings, capitals and carvings. These, together with the
text give the reader a clear sense of how the building which is such a
familiar part of the Dublin streetscape, came to be.
The book has been edited by Roger Stalley, Professor of the History
of Art in Trinity College, Dublin, who has also written a general
introduction to the volume as well as a commentary on the reprint of
Street's account of the cathedral architecture. Professor Stalley, who
wrote the architectural chapters in the Christ Church history, is the
leading authority on the architectural history of the cathedral.
George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin edited by Roger Stalley is published by Four Courts Press. It
is available through booksellers at IR£30.
This afternoon at Thonlagee, near Brittas Bay, the Dunganstown,
Redcross and Conary union of parishes will hold a fête.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast parish communion from St
Patrick's Church, Greystones, where the rector is the Archdeacon of
Glendalough, the Ven. Edgar Swann. In Dublin, the services in Christ
Church Cathedral will be sung by the choir of St George's Church,
Belfast, while in St Patrick's Cathedral the visiting choir will be the
St Edmundsbury Singers, the ladies choir of St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
The choir of St Andrew's Church, Malahide, directed by Rodney Baldwin,
will be in Wales where they will sing the services in St Deniol's
Cathedral, Bangor. Their repertoire will include the first performance
of the Slane Eucharist which was composed earlier this year by
Andrew Johnstone, Assistant Organist in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,
and dedicated to the Malahide choir.
On Monday an international conference of the Ecumenical Society of
the Blessed Virgin Mary begins in Oriel College, Oxford. The Bishop of
Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will speak on "The Blessed
Virgin Mary, bearer of God, and the politics of Ireland". Among
other prominent Anglican participants will be Sr Benedicta Ward, Reader
in the History of Christian Spirituality in Oxford, and the
internationally renowned theologian, the Revd Dr John Maquarrie.
Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday, will be sung
by Cadence and Continuo, a group of singers from southern England. On
Thursday evening the final recital in the 20th Festival of Classical
Music in St Barrahane's Church, Castletownshend, Co. Cork, will be given
by John Gibson (piano) and Johnny McCarthy (flute and fiddle).
The Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, Dr Richard Henderson, has
appointed the Revd Aean Ferguson, Vicar of Killala, Co. Mayo, as Rector
of Enniscrone, Co. Sligo.
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