High Altar

Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)

Date: 2 March 1866
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: religious and ritual equipment

Object type: altar

Material: stone

Technique: carved

Description: High Altar for Ardee, County Louth

Notes: Source contains two detailed pages of costings, including amounts for masons, carvers, caen stone, marble, laying of steps and tiles, communion rails, tabernacle and safe, carriage and fixings. Costs from July 1864.

Citing this record

'High Altar', 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_1214319905, accessed 26 Sep 2023]

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