Altar of the Blessed Virgin in Caen Stone
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 1864
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Material: stone - limestone - caen stone
Technique: carved
Description: 1 altar of the Blessed Virgin in Caen Stone. 17 ft high and 10 ft wide. Length of altar 8 ft. Height 3 ft 4. Width including super altar 3 ft 3.
A seated figure of Blessed Virgin and Infant and two groups of the Death of the Blessed Virgin and the Coronation.
Including carriage and fixing: £160 0s. 0d.
Makers, Owners and Patrons
Commissioned by The Very Rev. Dean Kenny
1864
It is presumed the very Reverend Dean Kenny was acting on behalf of the local Church, probably the cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, in Ennis, Co. Clare.
Citing this record
'Altar of the Blessed Virgin in Caen Stone', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1208771120, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
