Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNSEND, CHURCH OF ST BARRAHANE (CI, CASTLEHAVEN PARISH)

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNSEND, CHURCH OF ST BARRAHANE (CI, CASTLEHAVEN PARISH)
Date: 1824-1826
Nature: New church in Castle Townsend demesne by JP and GR Pain; a large and very handsome edifice, with a lofty square tower supported by buttresses and crowned with pinnacles' (Lewis). Cost £1,384, most of which was given by Board of First Fruits.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 297 (gives date as 1827);  JCHAS (1923), 30;  letter from Captain P.M.B. Chavasse, Castletownshend, to Rolf Loeber, 10 Mar 1973  (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). (In 1973 Capt. Chavasse held estimate for church, dated 1824, and other drawings and documents relating to it.) ;  exterior illus. in ;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 373.

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLETOWNSEND, CHURCH OF ST BARRAHANE (CI, CASTLEHAVEN PARISH)
Date: 1918,1921,1926
Nature: 3 stained-glass windows: Nativity; St Louis of France; St Luke
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 38