High Altar
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 13 November 1865
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: altar
Material: stone - limestone - caen stone
Technique: carved
Description: High Altar for Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Notes: One page of detailed costs, including amounts to carvers, masons, drawings, 216 feet of caen stone, veined marble, alabaster, statuary, safe, brass plate and engraving. Costs from 1864.
Objects
Related works included High Altar Cashel
The article in the 'Irish Builder' of 1891 from which the reference to the High Altar Cashel is taken may be a later description of the High Altar by Earley and Company
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_1214320549, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
