Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, COVE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI, OLD)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COVE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI, OLD)
Date: 1720-23
Nature: New church replacing earlier one. Founded 19 Jan 1720. Payment made for finishing church, May 1723.
Refs: Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z.2.1.7(57); View of the Greencoat Hospital and other charitable organizations in Cork (1721), ?;  Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 127;  R. Caulfield (ed.);  The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 415,428;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 96.

Name: BACON, JOHN [1]*#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COVE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI, OLD)
Date: 1788
Nature: Monument to James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton (d. 1782).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 35; for photographs of the monument in situ in the church, see T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 32, and Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 98.
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