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George Coppinger Ashlin (1837 – 1921) was an Irish architect, particularly noted for his work on churches and cathedrals.

Early life

Ashlin was born on 28 May 1837, in a house named “Carrigrenane” in Little Island, Co Cork. He received his early education at the Collège de St Servais, Liège. While at St Mary’s College, Oscott (1851–5), with which Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was strongly associated, he studied drawing and perspective and developed an interest in architecture. Between 1856 and 1860 he was articled to E.W. Pugin (External Link

)(whose sister Mary he married in 1860) and in 1858 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, London.

Career

When in 1859 E.W. Pugin received the commission for SS Peter and Paul, Cork, he made Ashlin a partner with responsibility for their Irish work, a position he retained until about 1870. Their practice was primarily ecclesiastical, the remodelling (1869) of Enniscorthy Castle for Isaac Newton Wallop (1825–91), 5th Earl of Portsmouth, being one of their few domestic projects.
   They worked on some 25 religious buildings. The Augustinian church of St. Augustine and St. John, Thomas Street, Dublin (commissioned 1860, opened (1874), in a style inspired by French architecture, is one of their most successful designs. The site drops towards the river, so that while the entrance is at street level the nave and chancel are raised considerably above the surrounding streets, a dramatic effect enhanced by the soaring spire.
   Their churches in the countryside, mainly in counties Wexford, Cork and County Kerry, are simpler, with straightforward Latin-cross plans, good quality stonework and simple bellcotes. The church at Lady’s Island, Co. Wexford adjoins the parish of Tagoat, the church of which was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin in 1846.
   By far the most important commission undertaken in Ireland by Pugin and Ashlin was the building of Cobh Cathedral (1869-1919) which was realization of the ideal gothic church advocated by Adolphe Napoleon Didron in his Annales Archéologique.
   The partnership broke up in 1870 and Ashlin practised on his own. During this time he designed a number of churches, including St. Mary Magdalen’s Dominican Church in Drogheda.

Work

Adelaide Memorial Church, Myshall,

SS Peter and Paul’s, Cork (External Link

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Holy Trinity, Cork(External Link

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St. Finbar’s West, Cork

Good Shepherd Convent, Cork

Clonmeen, Banteer,

Loreto and Presentations Convents, Fermoy

AIB Midleton,

Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen,

St. Mary of the Angels, Dublin,

Convent School, Portland Row, Dublin

Carmelite Church, Aungier St. Dublin

28 Fitzwilliam Pl., Dublin

St. Audoen’s, Dublin

SS Augustine and John, Dublin

7, Westmoreland St., Dublin,

Belcamp Hall,

Castleknock College (External Link

)

Dominican Convent, Cabra

St. Anne’s Clontarf

All Hallow’s, Drumcondra,

Redemptoristine Convent Drumcondra

St. Patrick’s Training College

Glasnevin Cemetery

St. Joseph’s Phibsborough

Mental Hospital, Portrane

C of I Raheny

Blackrock College, Dublin

Mount Anville

St. George’s Killiney

Dominican Monastery, Tallaght

Tulira Castle

Ashford Castle (External Link

)

Clongowes Woods

St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth

St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny

Presentation Church Limerick

Redemptorist Church, Dundalk

Netterville Almshouses

Convent of Mercy Birr

Rockwell College, Cashel

Mooresfort

Convent of Mercy, Tipperary

Clonyn Castle,

Greville Nugent Mausoleum

Catholic Cathedrals

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh Catholic

Cobh Cathedral

Skibbereen Cathedral

Newry Cathedral (External Link

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Killarney Cathedral

Derry Cathedral (External Link

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Longford Cathedral, St. Mel's. (External Link

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Thurles Cathedral

Catholic churches

Kileavey Catholic Church

Kilrush Catholic Church

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church

Ballyhooly Catholic Church

Fermoy Catholic Church

Mallow Catholic Church

Midleton Catholic Church

Clonakilty Catholic ChurchIt is said to be one of the most successful examples of Mr. Ashlin's skill as a Church architect. It is of pure Gothic of the early French style, and consists of a nave, aisles, transepts, two chapels and a baptistery.

Monkstown Catholic Church

Carrick Catholic Church

Balbriggan Catholic Church

Rush Catholic Church

Ballybrack Catholic Church

Dundrum Catholic Church

Inchicore Catholic Church

Rathfarnam Catholic Church

Brosna Catholic Church

Cahirciveen Catholic Church

Tralee Catholic Church

Ballingarry Catholic Church

Kilfinane Catholic Church

Kilmallock Catholic Church

Edgeworthstown Catholic Church

Dundalk Catholic Church

Carrig-on-Suir Catholic Church

Emly Catholic Church

SS Peter and Paul’s Clonmel

Lattin Catholic Church

Nenagh Catholic Church

Templemore Catholic Church

TempletouhyCatholic Church

Clonlea Catholic Church

Devlin Catholic Church

Balloughter Catholic Church

Ballymurn Catholic Church

Newry Dominican Church

Tralee Dominican Church

Drogheda Dominican Church

Dundalk Dominican Church

Attrib.

Mausoleum Monivea

Bishop’s Palace Killarney

Costello Chapel

Rathangan

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