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  • The Development of Catholic Chapels in Ireland Prior to Catholic Emancipation, 1778–1829

  • Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman
  • Journal:
    Architectural History / Volume 68 / 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 December 2025, pp. 123-152
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    2025
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  • This article examines the development of Catholic places of worship in Ireland from the initial relaxation of the penal laws in 1778 to the passage of An Act for the Relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects, popularly known as the Act of in 1829. Focusing on parish chapels, three distinct forms are identified — the ‘transitional chapel’, the ‘improved chapel’ and the ‘grand chapel’ or ‘great chapel’. Many of these chapels have been reworked, replaced or demolished, and therefore a range of sources have been used to examine this important period of Catholic infrastructural development, including drawings, written descriptions and analysis of the surviving built fabric. This period of Catholic architecture has been largely overshadowed in the historiography by the more extensive and elaborate buildings constructed in the second half of the nineteenth century. The chapels built during the earlier period are varied in design and scale, ranging from the grandeur of the ‘Metropolitan chapel’ (called the Pro-Cathedral until November 2025) on Dublin’s Marlborough Street to modest cruciform chapels with minimal external decoration in the rural landscape. This article examines the architectural strategies used in both urban and rural contexts to assert a recognisable Catholic architectural identity in public space while negotiating a precarious and uncertain legal environment during a period of considerable political instability. Finally, it examines the increasing use of professional architectural expertise in order to participate in a culture of ecclesiastical building and to express the institutional capacity of the Catholic church emerging from the legal restrictions of the penal laws.

  • JRA volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 35 / Issue 1 / January 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2025, pp. f1-f4
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    January 2025
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