Studies in the Gothic Revival

by McCarthy, Michael; O'Neill, Karina

• ISBN13: 9781846820229
• ISBN10: 1846820227
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-27
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

This book contains the text and illustrations of ten papers delivered at a conference held in the Irish Architectural Archive in January 2005 to mark the retirement of Professor McCarthy. The conference was sponsored by the Archive, the Irish Georgian Society and the Irish Association of Art Historians and was co-ordinated by Karina O'Neill. The authors of the essays have all been associated with Professor McCarthy at University College Dublin or at the University of Toronto or in studies of the architectural history of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Tribute to Michael McCarthy
Stone, stucco and papier mache : fan vaulting from Henry VII's chapel, Westminster Abbey, to Monkstown parish church	p. 3
Batty Langley in Ireland	p. 21
From Gothic to Gothic revival: an archaeology of Leap Castle, Co. Offaly	p. 27
In search of Christopher Myers: pioneer of the Gothic revival in Ireland	p. 51
Neo-Gothic residences in Poland and the English pattern books	p. 112
Thomas Rickman in Ireland: the building of Lough Fea, Co. Monaghan, and its context	p. 141
Richard Pierce: architect and acolyte of the Gothic revival	p. 159
Administering justice in Gothic revival Ireland: a study of the Sligo assizes courthouse	p. 180
Trinity church, Potsdam, New York State and the New York Ecclesiological Society	p. 195
'Unsightly and unbecoming': the progress of the Gothic revival in a metropolitan parish	p. 215
Index	p. 233
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