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Popes Quay
Just to change it up from the recent sunset photos, I took this as part of a wider collection of photographs of the churches in Cork city.
The church was built in 1839.
'The coffered ceiling was executed by local craftsmen at a time when such sophisticated plaster work was normally undertaken only by Italians
The Reredos occupies the full space between the two columns at the rear of the baldachino. Its centrepiece is a model of the Holy of Holies, the innermost part of the ancient temple in Jerusalem. At the sides are marble statuettes of St Thomas Aquinas and St. Rose of Lima. This marble structure houses the Tabernacle, of brass and blue enamel, designed in 1883 and made in Paris. At either side of it are brass statuettes of St Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena.
The high altar is the third since the church was constructed. To facilitate the celebration of the liturgy according to the second Vatican Council, the present altar was detached from the reredos in 1976, re-inforced, and brought forward 1.1 metres.
Towering above the altar is the Baldachino, erected in 1872. Its four columns are made of polished red Aberdeen granite, each shaft consisting of a single piece 3.4 metres high, resting on bases of Sicilian white marble. Each pedestal has four panels of green Connemara marble. The columns are crowned with elaborately foliated capitals of Caen stone. At the front of the baldachino are the words “VERE TU ES DEUS ABSCONDITUS” (truly you are a hidden God – Isaiah 45:15). Above the pillars at each corner are statues of the four Latin doctors of the church : St Ambrose & St Augustine at the back, St Jerome and St Gregory the Great at the front.
The pulpit, from 1830, is made of several kinds of marble: Carrara, Sicilian, Siennese, Galway Black, and Midleton Red. The figures represented on it are those of five Dominican saints : St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Pius V, and St. Vincent Ferrer.'
Taken from www.dominicanscork.ie
Popes Quay
Just to change it up from the recent sunset photos, I took this as part of a wider collection of photographs of the churches in Cork city.
The church was built in 1839.
'The coffered ceiling was executed by local craftsmen at a time when such sophisticated plaster work was normally undertaken only by Italians
The Reredos occupies the full space between the two columns at the rear of the baldachino. Its centrepiece is a model of the Holy of Holies, the innermost part of the ancient temple in Jerusalem. At the sides are marble statuettes of St Thomas Aquinas and St. Rose of Lima. This marble structure houses the Tabernacle, of brass and blue enamel, designed in 1883 and made in Paris. At either side of it are brass statuettes of St Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena.
The high altar is the third since the church was constructed. To facilitate the celebration of the liturgy according to the second Vatican Council, the present altar was detached from the reredos in 1976, re-inforced, and brought forward 1.1 metres.
Towering above the altar is the Baldachino, erected in 1872. Its four columns are made of polished red Aberdeen granite, each shaft consisting of a single piece 3.4 metres high, resting on bases of Sicilian white marble. Each pedestal has four panels of green Connemara marble. The columns are crowned with elaborately foliated capitals of Caen stone. At the front of the baldachino are the words “VERE TU ES DEUS ABSCONDITUS” (truly you are a hidden God – Isaiah 45:15). Above the pillars at each corner are statues of the four Latin doctors of the church : St Ambrose & St Augustine at the back, St Jerome and St Gregory the Great at the front.
The pulpit, from 1830, is made of several kinds of marble: Carrara, Sicilian, Siennese, Galway Black, and Midleton Red. The figures represented on it are those of five Dominican saints : St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Pius V, and St. Vincent Ferrer.'
Taken from www.dominicanscork.ie