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AN IRISH GOTHIC REVIVAL WHITE MARBLE PANEL
Lot 96A

AN IRISH GOTHIC REVIVAL WHITE MARBLE PANEL

CIRCA 1840

Fermé18 March 2014

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GBP 375

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AN IRISH GOTHIC REVIVAL WHITE MARBLE PANEL
CIRCA 1840
Carved on both sides, in the form of two connecting scrolls, pierced and carved with trefoil decoration with conforming trefoil finials, losses
19 in. (49 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide

By repute removed from St. Patrick's, Armagh Catholic Catherdral when the High Altar was remodelled in 1980.

Note du spécialiste

St. Patrick's, the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland was designed by two architects as work was suspended part way through in 1844 due to the Potato Famine. The bottom half was designed in 1838, in the English Perpendicular Gothic style, by Thomas Duff of Newry; the top half designed in 1853, in the French Decorated Gothic style, by J. J. McCarthy of Dublin. It was dedicated in 1873.

The rood screen from which this section of panelling is thought to originate was destroyed when the cathedral was remodelled in 1980 along with the High Altar designed by the Italian sculptor Cesare Aureli (1844-1923).