External Links: www.mistersf.com by Mr. Hank Donat, San Francisco-based journalist. St. Brigid's Church Streets of Old Splendid Structure

St. Brigid Church, an Architectural Gem

• National Register of Historic Places   August 11, 1995

• History Timeline 1860 to 1999

  Click on the following years to view the history timeline:
  1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1960s 1980s 1990s
  [PDF version] (file size= 7MB)

  
   

• Seamus Murphy, the Irish Sculptor
  • Bio: Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
    
    Excerpt: "Seamus Murphy was born near Mallow, county Cork. ...
    and in 1947 carved the Apostles and St Brigid for a church in San Francisco... " [read more]

  • Book: "The Works of Seamus Murphy, Sculptor 1907-1975"

  • Book: "Stone Mad"

  • News article: "The twelve Irish apostles" (written by Alan Counihan, Cork Examiner Tuesday, December 3, 1985)

  • Reference: Copied verbatim from books held by the Library of the United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco. (c.c.)

  
   

• Sculptures by Gladding McBean & Co., Lincoln, California, 1930s
  

  Slide Show:     Previous   Next Photos: Courtesy of Gladding McBean & Co.

  
  Gladding McBean's website: www.gladdingmcbean.com.

   

   

• "Great Old Houses" (#97 written by Anne Bloomfield, The New Fillmore, April 1994, Volume 8, Number 12)

Other related references:

• The Ruffatti Organ
  (Designed by Piero Ruffatti, Francisco Ruffatti; partners in the firm of Fratelli Ruffatti, Padua, Italy)

• The Stained Glass Windows page
  (Designed and made by the Harry Clarke Studio, Dublin, Ireland)

  "Stained Glass Windows" ... Article written by Rev. Monsignor Robert F. Hayburn, 6-27-1982

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