Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)
Date: 1827
Nature: New church built 1827 as chapel-of-ease to St Finn Barre's cathedral at cost of £2,100. Attr. to GRP by H.H. Hill but also attr. to William Hill. Spire, part of tower and W end of nave destroyed when struck by lightning, 29 Jan 1836, but subsequently restored.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 209; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; H.H. Hill, 'Cork Architecture', JCHAS 44 (1939), 89; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 168(illus.),169;  exterior illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 366.

Name: HILL, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)
Date: 1836p
Nature: Restoration of church after its partial destruction by lightning, Jan 1836. (Also original church?)
Refs: Sketch of traceried window, inscr. 'Blackrock Church/W. Hill architect/5 ft' in Henry Hill's Notebook No. 4 (Cork Museum, Ref. G301) but church designed by G.R. Pain. Jones file contains photocopies of two lithographs of church of on 30 Jan 1836 after it had been struck by lightning: one is after a drawubg by Henry Hill, the other, which states that church was 'Built A.D. 1827, by Wm. Hill Architect', was drawn and lithographed by Unkles, Cork.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)
Date: 1844
Nature: Memorial (marble relief) to William Beamish (1760-1828). Represents Resurrection. Cost £650.
Refs: J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 171-2; Bryan A. Cody, The river Lee, Cork, and the Corkonians (1859), 125; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 132-4

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Proposed addition of N & S transepts.
Refs: Drawing(s) signed 'J. Welland & Son' and dated 1860 in RCB Library, portfolio 8; DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 301

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1]
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CHURCH ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (CI)
Date: 1864
Nature: Sketches & letter from WHH re this church in RCB.
Refs: RCB Library, portfolio 8