{"id":2072,"date":"2015-01-24T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T09:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2015-01-24T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T09:43:23","slug":"re-dedication-of-enlarged-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/re-dedication-of-enlarged-church\/","title":{"rendered":"RE-DEDICATION OF ENLARGED CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEINSTER<\/b><\/em>\u00a0 LEADER<\/em> 30 AUGUST 1975<\/b><\/p>\n

RE-DEDICATION OF ENLARGED CHURCH\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

THE RE-DESIGNED, enlarged and renovated St. Brigid\u2019s ParishChurch, Kildare, will be solemnly blessed and re-dedicated by His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Lennon, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, on Sunday at 2.30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Work on the Church began in July of 1974 and the Church has been closed for worship since then.\u00a0 Interim accommodation was found in St. Brigid\u2019s Cathedral, the Carmelite Church, White Abbey, and in the C.Y.M.S. premises; in a booklet marking Sunday\u2019s re-dedication ceremonies the Kildare parish clergy express their deep appreciation of the co-operation given to them by the Church of Ireland community and the Carmelite Fathers.<\/p>\n

The new St. Brigid\u2019s Church has been considerably enlarged and the lay-out altered extensively.\u00a0 Among additions are the altar, ambo and baptismal font; the alter has a table-like mensa made of polished granite stone supported by eight granite stones so cut as to form a St. Brigid\u2019s Cross on all four sides.\u00a0 The ambo is cut from one granite stone, with a dove carved on the front; the baptismal font is constructed from two granite stones cut in circular form.\u00a0 Altar, ambo and font were executed by artist Ray Carroll.<\/p>\n

All the stained glass is the work of Patrick Pye; much of it is from the old building and has been redistributed.\u00a0 A beautiful statue of the Madonna in the shrine room is the work of Oisin Kelly; the old Stations of the Cross have been removed from their heavy wooden frames and specially treated.\u00a0 The brass gates from the altar rails of the original sanctuary are now at the entrance to the mortuary.<\/p>\n

All the sanctuary metalwork and enamels in the Church are by Patrick McElroy, head of the Department of Fine Art Metalwork and Enamelling in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.\u00a0 Especially attractive is the tabernacle, the subject matter for the decoration of which was taken from the Book of Revelation; the tabernacle is raised on a pillar so that it can be seen above the altar, and the sanctuary lamp is in beaten bronze and enamel.<\/p>\n

The new main entrance to the building is particularly imposing and, fittingly, is likely to give one of the most lasting impressions of the new St. Brigid\u2019s.\u00a0 But the overall impression of the new building is one of spaciousness and the introduction of modern design concepts in church building was carried out to blend with most of the outstanding features of the architecture of the old church.\u00a0 The removal of the boundary wall and the new entrance from Convent Road add to the feeling of spaciousness and quite apart from the actual building give added dignity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Re-typed by Mary Murphy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEINSTER\u00a0 LEADER 30 AUGUST 1975 RE-DEDICATION OF ENLARGED CHURCH\u00a0 THE RE-DESIGNED, enlarged and renovated St. Brigid\u2019s ParishChurch, Kildare, will be solemnly blessed and re-dedicated by His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Lennon, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, on Sunday at 2.30 p.m. Work on the Church began in July of 1974 and the Church has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}