Dictionary of Irish Architects - CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNROCHE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Selected: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNROCHE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name:	PAIN, JAMES
Building:	CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNROCHE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date:	1825
Nature:	New church on Latin cross plan, erected on site of old church. With G.R. Pain; 'a remarkably handsome structure, with a tower surmounted by a finely proportioned spire; the lower stage is pierced with a window on every face, the copings of which form a zigzag ornament continued all round' (Lewis).
Refs:	S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 312; D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 242, note 37; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 152,153(illus.),162(illus.),163; Bill Power, 'A treasury of churches: North Cork churches of James Pain', Mallow Field Club Journal 22 (2004),78-79(illus.).