William Hague Jr. (1836–1899) was a well-known Irish
Roman Catholic
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ecclesiastical architect active throughout mid- to late-nineteenth-century
Ireland
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, particularly in
Ulster
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. He is known as a protégé of
A.W.N. Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...
. His office was located at 50
Dawson Street, Dublin.
[Gerry Convery. ''Poetry in Stone: Sacred Heart Church.'' (Omagh: Drumragh RC Parish, 1999), p.57]
He was born in
County Cavan
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, the son of William Hague, a builder, and there designed several Roman Catholic churches, many in the
French Gothic style
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. Hague died the year Omagh’s Sacred Heart was dedicated and consequently it was "a culmination of his amazing catalogue of completed ecclesiastical designs and his continuous championship of the Gothic Revival style," according to Richard Oram in ''Expressions of Faith-Ulster’s Church Heritage''. Following his death, his partner
T. F. McNamara
Thomas Francis McNamara, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, RIAI, RIBA, (1867–1947) was an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout the late-nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth-century Ireland who designed many h ...
took over most of his commissions under the firm name of
Hague & McNamara.
[Gerry Convery. "Poetry in Stone: Sacred Heart Church." (]Omagh
Omagh (; from ga, An Ómaigh , meaning 'the virgin plain') is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers River Drumragh, Drumragh and Camowen River, Camowen meet to form the River Strule, Strule. North ...
: Drumragh RC Parish, 1999), p.8.
Works
*
Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Strabane (1890–1895)
[ Simon Walker. ''Historic Ulster Churches.'' (]Belfast
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: Queens University at Belfast, 2000), p.182.
* Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Omagh (1892–1899), designed in the French Gothic style and built by the Colhoun Brothers of Derry at the contract price of £46,000.[Northern Ireland Environment Agency Historic Building Details HB Ref No: HB11/11/001 A]
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* St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal
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, completed by his partner T. F. McNamara
Thomas Francis McNamara, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, RIAI, RIBA, (1867–1947) was an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout the late-nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth-century Ireland who designed many h ...
following his death.[
*Ballyboy Catholic Church, County Cavan][
* Butlersbridge Catholic Church, County Cavan][
*Kingscourt Catholic Church, County Cavan][
* St. Macartan's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Monaghan, County Monaghan, (spire only, 1882–1892), County Monaghan][ Charles E. B. Brett, ''Buildings of Monaghan''. Belfast: ]Ulster Architectural Heritage Society
Ulster Architectural Heritage Society was founded "to promote appreciation and enjoyment of good architecture of all periods and encourage the conservation, restoration and re-use of Ulster's built heritage to regenerate and sustain our communitie ...
, 1970.
*Swanlinbar Catholic Church, County Cavan[
* St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Park Street, Monaghan, County Monaghan (1900)][
* Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Carrickroe, Emyvale, County Monaghan (1823, enlarged 1885-1888 by Hague with date plaque of 1886)
* Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Kilkenny (1903-1908)
* St Patrick's College, Cavan
* St. Brigid's Catholic Church, Killeshandra, Co. Cavan.
* St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Milltown, Co. Cavan
* Archbishops Palace, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
* Sligo Townhall, ]Sligo
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, Co.Sligo
* Carlow Townhall, Carlow
Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272.
The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...
, Co. Carlow
* Church of the Sacred Heart, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow.
References
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1836 births
1899 deaths
Irish ecclesiastical architects
Architects of Roman Catholic churches
People from County Cavan
Architects of cathedrals
19th-century Irish architects