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You are here: Home / Images / Pretoria Image: NOT a “Gothic revival/restoration stone church, square castellated tower with four corner spires”, but Down Cathedral

Pretoria Image: NOT a “Gothic revival/restoration stone church, square castellated tower with four corner spires”, but Down Cathedral

5 June 2020 11:18 am

This #Church Square tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more.

Church Square
Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
While this is NOT the exterior of a Gothic revival/restoration stone church it just may be the interior of just such a church. This appears to be one of a number of images of the same church in the archive. This one shows a beautifully clean, tidy and empty church all ready for Sunday service but where is it?

There was mighty craic with the image last Friday and may I apologise to all our Cork brethren for suggesting that their beautiful city is naught but a "hamlet" 🙂 And today’s image is from no small hamlet either – but Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. (Which [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] told us with lightening speed – before our morning coffee had cooled!

Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton

Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence

Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection

Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883

NLI Ref: STP_0513

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: castellated, Cathedral, Church, Corner, down, Four, Gothic, Image, pretoria, revival/restoration, spires, Square, stone, tower 5 June 2020 at 11:18 am

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