Later: now tracked down.
Start with google with the key 'buckfast candelabra abbey'. I suppose on a good day I might not have confused candelabra with chandelier - but then, we look to google to deal with that kind of thing.
This leads to a book which google has digitised which talks of a 'corona lucis'.
Take 'buckfast corona' to the blog archive which gives me reference 2 which gives me 'Barbarossa'.
Which key gives me reference 1. Which gives me '... copied from the 12th century original at Aachen, known as the Barbarossa chandelier or the Barbarossaleuchter...'. With google finding lots of stuff for this last, the original.
At which point I start to puzzle, not for the first time, where the Catholic church gets all the money needed for this kind of thing. From where I associate to a friend who still gets very angry about the money which was sucked out of the faithful poor to build the cathedral at Cork. Something else which I am sure I have noticed before, but now fail to find. In the meantime, see reference 4, not to be confused with the Anglican cathedral at reference 3.
I should admit to some confusion. The cathedral at reference 4 seems to have been built in the early nineteenth century, while that at reference 5 was built much later, and was not finished until the end of that century, with wikipedia reporting some discontent at the time about cost overruns. So perhaps that is the one. My excuse is that I can't get out of our Anglican habit of having just the one cathedral for each city.
PS: no mention of the mustard people of the same name, so perhaps no relation.
Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/more-devon-churches.html.
Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/buckfast.html.
Reference 3: http://corkcathedral.webs.com/.
Reference 4: http://corkcathedral.ie/.
Reference 5: http://cloynediocese.ie/about-the-diocese/cathedral/.
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