High Altar
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: March 1869
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Material: stone
Technique: carved
Description: Part of large commission for Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, which included a total of 3 altars: high altar, altar to the Blessed Virgin and altar to St Joseph. The commission also included communion rails, Portland stone flagging and tiles, marble for altar top, tabernacle and safe.
Notes: Detailed cost of all spread over 3 folio pages: 192, 193, 197.
Costs of total commission, charged in 1869: £709 8s. 9d., including the two side altars above to the Blessed Virgin and St Joseph.
Objects
Same commission Altar of the Blessed Virgin in Bath Stone
1868 - 1869
Same commission Altar of St Joseph in Bath Stone
1868 - 1869
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 1 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation
Ledger ECD/7, pp. 192, 193, 197
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_1214391102, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
