Franz Mayer & Co.

Franz Mayer & Co. (Mayer & Co. of Munich) is a famous German stained glass design and manufacturing company, based in Munich, Germany, that has been active throughout most of the world for over 150 years. The firm was very popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and was the principal provider of stained glass to the large Roman Catholic churches that were constructed throughout the world during that period. Franz Mayer and Co. were stained glass artists to the Holy See and, consequently, popular with Roman Catholic clients.^[1]

Great window in the choir gallery of St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena Parish (Charlestown, MA).

Window by Franz Mayer & Co. for St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Installation was by the studios of George L. Payne of Patterson, New Jersey.

Works in Ireland

The Mayer Co. is responsible for stained glass in at least nine of Ireland's Cathedral churches (Derry, Thurles, Letterkenny, Ballaghaderreen, Waterford, Ballina, Enniscorthy, Carlow, and Cobh).

• Presentation Brothers' Novitiate, Blarney Street, Cork City;
• Vincentians, Sunday’s Well, County Cork;
• Mausoleum Monivea, County Galway;
• Church and Convent Kenmare;
• Presentation Convent Tralee;
• Clongowes Wood, County Kildare;
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth;
• Dominican Church, Dundalk;
• Loreto Convent, Omagh;
• Church of the Sacred Heart (Omagh), Co. Tyrone^[2][3];
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wexford;

Catholic Cathedrals

Detail of a stained glass window featuring St. Dominic receiving the rosary from the Virgin Mary by Franz Mayer in Carlow Cathedral

• Armagh RC Cathedral; (St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, Armagh) [1] [2] [3]
• Carlow Cathedral;

• Letterkenny Cathedral;
• Derry Cathedral;
• Monaghan Cathedral
• Ballaghaderreen Cathedral [4];
• Thurles Cathedral;
• Enniscorthy Cathedral

Church of Ireland Cathedrals

Christs Church Catedral, Lisburn, County Antrim

• Cathedral Church of St. Fethlimidh, Kilmore, County Cavan;
• St. Canice Cathedral, Kilkenny [5];

Catholic Churches

• St.Matthew's Church, Ballymahon, Co. Longford
• Killeen, County Carlow 1909
• Whitehouse, County Antrim;
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clonakilty, County Cork;
• Ballybofey, County Donegal;
• St. Patrick’s Killygordan, County Donegal ;
• Castlewellan, County Down;
• Downpatrick, County Down;
• St. Ann’s Dawson St., Dublin;
• Donnybrook, Dublin;
• St. Patrick’s Monkstown, County Dublin
• Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
• St. Teresa’s, Laban, Ardrahan, County Galway;
• St. Mary’s Galway;
• Kintullagh, County Galway;
• Saints Peter and Paul, Monasterevin, County Kildare;
• Our Lady and St. David, Naas, County Kildare;
• Knock, Co. Laois;
• Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Ballingarry, Co Limerick;
• SS Patrick and Brigid, Kilmallock, County Limerick
• St. Columb’s Derry;
• The Assumption, Magherafelt, County Londonderry;
• St. Brigid’s, Ardagh, County Longford;
• Church of Mary Immaculate, Collon, County Louth;
• Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Tenure, Castlebellingham, County Louth;
• St. Mary’s Drogheda, County Louth;
• St. Peter’s Drogheda, County Louth
• Dundalk, County Louth;
• Castlebar, County Mayo;
• St. Patrick’s, Trim, Meath;
• St. Patrick’s, Ballybay, County Monaghan;
• St Mary's, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan
• Clones, Co. Monaghan;
• St. Brigid’s, Clara, County Offaly;
• Our Lady of the Assumption, Collooney, County Sligo;
• Carrick-on-suir, County Tipperary;
• St. Ailbe’s, Emly, County Tipperary;
• St. Mary of the Rosary, Nenagh, County Tipperary;
• Solohead, Limerick Junction, County Tipperary;
• St. Cronan’s, Roscrea, County Tipperary;
• Sacred Heart, Templemore, County Tipperary;
• St. Michael’s, Tipperary;
• Omagh, County Tyrone;
• Strabane, County Tyrone;
• Holy Cross, Tramore, County Waterford;
• St. Mary’s Athlone, County Westmeath;
• New Ross, County Wexford;
• St. Joseph, Baltinglass, County Wicklow;
• St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.

Church of Ireland Churches

• Skibbereen;
• Templeague;
• St. Peter’s Phibsborough;
• Park Rd., Dún Laoghaire;
• Abingdon;
• St. John’s, Sligo.

Works in the United States

• Cathedral of St Andrew [6], Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington, KY (Roman Catholic)
• Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama, (Roman Catholic)
• Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, SC (Roman Catholic)
• Chapel of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost Preparatory School
• Christ Church (Greenville, South Carolina)
• Church of the Most Holy Trinity [7], Augusta, GA (Roman Catholic)
• Corpus Christi Church, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Motherhouse, Nashville, TN [8], St. Dominic Oratory and St. Cecilia Chapel [9]
• The Episcopal Church of the Holy Innocents, Henderson, NC [10]
• Grace Episcopal Church [11] Radford,Virginia
• Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Jacksonville, Florida
• Mother of God [12], Covington, Ky ( Roman Catholic)
• Our Lady Help of Christians, Philadelphia, PA Port Richmond section of the city (Roman Catholic) established in 1885
• Our Lady of the Lake Catholic church, Louisiana
• Resurrection Roman Catholic Parish (formerly St. Stephen) in Johsntown, PA
• Sacred Heart Church, Norfolk, Virginia (Roman Catholic)
• St. Adalbert's Basilica, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• St. Alphonsus Parish, Chicago, IL [13]
• St. James Parish [14], Haverhill,_Massachusetts (Roman Catholic)
• St. Joseph Catholic Church [15], Macon, Georgia
• St. Joseph's Parish[16], Biddeford, ME (Roman Catholic)
• St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Charleston, South Carolina)
• St. Mary's Church, Greenville, SC (Roman Catholic)
• St. Mary Church - Norwalk, CT - "The Mother Church of Norwalk" www.stmarynorwalk.net
• St. Mary's Church [17], Uxbridge, Massachusetts
• St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena Parish (Charlestown, MA)
• St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina
• St. Stanislaus - Bishop & Martyr Church, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• Trinity Episcopal Parish Church (Seattle)
• St. Catherine of Siena (New Orleans)

Works in Canada

• Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Guelph, Ontario (Roman Catholic)
• St._Michael's_Cathedral_(Toronto)
• Cathedral_Church_of_St._James_(Toronto)
• St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario
• Blessed_Sacrament_Catholic_Church_(Ottawa)
• St._Patrick's_Basilica,_Ottawa
• Cathedral_of_Christ_the_King_(Hamilton)
• St. Patrick's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Works in the rest of the World

All Saints Church, Appleton Roebuck, near York, North Yorkshire, England

External links

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References

1. ^ Gerry Convery. “Poetry in Stone: Sacred Heart Church.” (Omagh: Drumragh RC Parish, 1999), p.120.
2. ^ The window dedicated to Edward Boyle over the high altar, the finest in the church, was designed and executed at a cost of £600. The window was refurbished between 1938-1948. The stained glass in the side chapels was also their work and mostly donated by the “Broderick Family of New York and Brooklyn,” as well as other families in New York City and St. Louis, Missouri. Gerry Convery. “Poetry in Stone: Sacred Heart Church.” (Omagh: Drumragh RC Parish, 1999), p. 120.
3. ^ Mayer & Co. also provided the Stations of the Cross at a cost of £35 each for a total of £490. These were refurbished and repainted in 1998 by Irish Contract Seating, Dromod, Co. Leitrim. Gerry Convery. “Poetry in Stone: Sacred Heart Church.” (Omagh: Drumragh RC Parish, 1999). p.122.