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BCD Special Report on
Historic Churches
18th annual edition
Recommended Reading
John George de la Poer Beresford,
Calendar of Primate JG Beresford’s
Correspondence
VII, 1827 (Armagh
Public Library)
Richard Herbert Carpenter & Benjamin
Ingelow,
S Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh:
Architects’ Report
, Vincent Brooks,
Day & Son, London, 1886
Anthony Peter William Malcolmson,
Primate Robinson, 1709–94: ‘A very tough
incumbent, in fine preservation’
, Ulster
Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2003
James McGuire & James Quinn (eds),
Dictionary of Irish Biography from the
Earliest Times to the Year 2002
, Cambridge
University Press for The Royal Irish
Academy, Cambridge, 2009
Janet Myles,
LN Cottingham 1787–1847:
Architect of the Gothic Revival
,
Lund Humphries, London, 1996
Henry West Rennison,
Manuscript Notes on
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, 1625–1969
(Armagh Public Library)
William Stokes,
The Life and Labours in Art
and Archæology, of George Petrie, LLD,
MRIA
, Longmans, Green, London, 1868
James Stuart,
Historical Memoirs of the City
of Armagh, for a Period of 1373 Years
,
Alexander Wilkinson for Longman, Hurst,
Rees, Orme and Brown, Newry, 1819
William Makepeace Thackeray,
The Works
,
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1885
Notes
1
Rennison, 1838; see also Stokes, 1868, for
observations on excessive restoration
2
McGuire & Quinn, iii, p461
3
‘Even to a hair’, meaning ‘perfectly’ (an expression
used by sculptors who tested the smoothness of
their work with their finger-nails)
4
Stuart, pp518–19
5
The Church of St James, Norton, contains a
memorial tablet to Chantrey, who was buried in
the churchyard to the south-west of the church.
6
Rennison, letter from Kelly to the then primate,
1827
7
Beresford, pp56–7; I am indebted to archivist
Thirza Mulder for drawing this to my attention.
8
Ibid
9
Thackeray, xviii, pp319–20
10 Myles, p92
11 Minutes of Vestry Meetings (Cathedral Board),
p002468030 LE 1.4, p124
12 Rennison, quoting letter of 11 July 1886
13 RC Carpenter, with others, had designed
important furnishings for Beresford Hope at
Christ Church, Kilndown, Kent, 1840–45.
14 Rennison, 1880–89 quoting letter of 11 July 1886
15 Carpenter and Ingelow, passim
16 Malcolmson, p11
Bust of Archbishop Robinson in his great library at Armagh, presiding over the volumes he collected
The monument to Primate Robinson in the south
aisle, bust by Joseph Nollekens and the rest of the
ensemble by John Bacon II
Robinson’s brother for Rokeby in 1777, in other
words when the archbishop would have been
aged 59, or thereabouts, and in his prime.
Taken as a whole, the Robinson monument
is impressive. It is an excellent example
of its period, when Neo-Classicism was
in the ascendant, Baroque was no longer
fashionable, yet the ultra-severity of slightly
later works was not generally in vogue.
Professor James Stevens Curl
PhD FSA
FRIAS is a Member of The Royal Irish Academy
and the author of several important works on
architectural history, including
The Victorian
Celebration of Death
(2004),
The Oxford Dictionary
of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
(2006),
Victorian Architecture: Diversity &
Invention
(2007),
Spas, Wells, & Pleasure-Gardens
of London
(2010), and
Freemasonry and the
Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols and Influences
(2011). Website www.jamesstevenscurl.com