Trinitarian Church (Adare)
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The Trinitarian Church ( English Trinitarian Church ; also: Holy Trinity Abbey Church , German: Abteikirche zur Heilistgen Dreifaltigkeit , Irish Mainistir na dTríonóideach ) is a Roman Catholic parish church and a former monastery church of the Trinitarian order in Adare in Ireland . She is consecrated to the Most Holy Trinity.
history
The exact founding date of the Trinitarian monastery at Adare is not known. The order settled there around 1230 in what is probably its only foundation in Ireland and built a church and hospital. The monastery was dedicated to St. James ( St. James ). In 1272 the monastery could be rebuilt with a donation from Thomas Fitzgerald Lord von Offaly. The monastery was closed in 1539 and the church fell into ruin.
In 1811 the ruins of the monastery church were restored by the Count of Dunraven and designated as the Catholic parish church of Adare. The massive crossing tower and parts of the southern nave wall were included in the single-nave construction. From 1856 the medieval nave and the choir were expanded to include a new central nave and a side aisle to the north and the church was given its current three-aisle shape. The central nave dominates the south aisle to the west, while the short north aisle only begins from the fourth central nave yoke. The final consecration took place in 1884.
literature
- Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses Ireland , London 1970, p. 217.
- Peter Harbison: Guide to National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland , Dublin 1992, p. 215.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 53.6 " N , 8 ° 47 ′ 20" W.