Qualla: Church of the Ascension, Timoleague https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Church of the Ascension, Timoleague https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague Church of the Ascension, Timoleague: Introduction https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague/ Photo credit A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0. From the outside, the Church of the Ascension looks like dozens of other small Church of Ireland buildings scattered across rural Ireland - rectangular, unadorned, a clock tower facing the village. Then you step inside, and Timoleague tilts toward Gwalior. Lotuses bloom on the walls. A pelican feeds her young above the chancel arch. Liver-coloured marble climbs to the dado, and above it, in mosaic tile, a Mughal-style garden unfurls beside a Star of David and a Paschal lamb. A small parish church in West Cork holds a quiet conversation with an Indian Maharaja, and has been holding it since 1925.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-wp/gc1v-church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Church of the Ascension, Timoleague: Built from the Old https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. A medieval church stood here first, still drawing congregations of around 80 in 1699. By 1802 it was unsafe, and the bishop ordered it pulled down - but with a careful instruction. The stones were to be saved and used again. Between 1810 and 1811, with a loan from the Board of Fi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-wp/gc1v-church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-built-from-the-old.mp3 0:06 2 full Church of the Ascension, Timoleague: A Murder in a Field https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 15 December 1832, the vicar of the parish, the Reverend Charles Ferguson, was beaten to death with a rock in a field near Bandon. His skull was so badly fractured that he was, in the words of the period, 'almost unrecognisable'. He had been collecting tithes - the mandatory ch...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-wp/gc1v-church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-a-murder-in-a-field.mp3 0:06 3 full Church of the Ascension, Timoleague: The Maharaja's Gift https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The story that draws visitors today began in India. Surgeon-General Alymer Martin Crofts, a Cork-born army doctor with family ties to Timoleague, sailed for India in 1877 and stayed thirty-seven years. There he became tutor, mentor and close friend to Madho Rao Scindia, the Mahar...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-wp/gc1v-church-of-the-ascension-timoleague-the-maharajas-gift.mp3 0:06 4 full Church of the Ascension, Timoleague: An Angel of Carrara https://qualla.com/church-of-the-ascension-timoleague/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The font is carved from Carrara marble in the shape of an angel, dedicated to Alice Maud Travers - another loss the family commemorated in stone. Above the door, a painting of the Ascension shows the Apostles gathered beneath a panorama of Jerusalem, the city itself laid out behi...

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