Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1813ca?
Nature: New church, 90 x 45ft exclusive of chancel and steeple, erected on site given by John Anderson, who also contributed £500. Classical. Overall cost: £8,000. 'Fretted work' (i.e. altar-piece?) by Mr Church.
Refs: A Tour in Ireland in 1813 & 1814. By an Englishman [John Gough?] (1817), ?; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 623-4; J.R. O’Flanagan, The Blackwater in Munster (1844), 82.

Name: PUGIN & ASHLIN
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1865-67
Nature: Adds., including tower & spire, & alts. Builder: Newstead, Fermoy. Cost: £2,500.
Refs: DB 7, 1 Dec 1865, 286; IB 9, 1 Aug 1867, 194 (illus.)

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1885
Nature: Chancel window.   Payment of £130 made on 4 Oct 1885.
Refs:

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1885;1892
Nature: GCA paid commission of £22 for design of high altar, 4 Oct 1885. Executed by O'Neill & Co. for £345. (Candlesticks, crucifix and other brass furnishings supplied by McGloughlin for £32.).GCA paid £8 (5% of cost); for design for new oak pulpit for Canon Dennehy, 2 Oct 1892. Pulpit exected by Bull of Dublin for £160. (Moved to Church of Immaculate Conception, Kanturk, 16 Oct 1897.)
Refs: Parochial accounts of parish of Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: HODKINSON, J., & SONS *
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1887;1903
Nature: Contract with James Hodkinson for painting and decorating church, Jul 1887. Cost: £500. Decoration of church, including cleaning of ceiling, varhishing of pillars, painting and decoration of galleries and sacristy Jun-Dec 1903. Cost: £232.6s.8d.
Refs: Parochial accounts of St Patrick's church, Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1893a
Nature: 2 side altars and marble statues of Virgin and St Patrick. £513 paid for same, 7 Aug 1893 (Was it designed by Ashlin, who was paid £29 for fee and travelling expenses on same day?)
Refs: Parochial accounts of parish of Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: HYNES, SAMUEL FRANCIS
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1901
Nature: Extensive adds.
Refs: IB 43, 29 Aug 1901, 845

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic pavement in sanctuary.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca, and information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013.

Name: HYNES, SAMUEL FRANCIS
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1918a
Nature: Altar rail and font. Executed by John Aloysius O'Connell, Cork. Cost: £500. Final instalment paid 2 Jul 1918.
Refs: Parochial accounts of parish of Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: O'CONNELL, JOHN ALOYSIUS *
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1918a
Nature: Altar rail and font executed by JAO'C to designs by S.F. Hynes. Cost: £500. Final instalment paid 2 Jul 1918.
Refs: Parochial accounts of parish of Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: MURPHY, SEAMUS *
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1920s
Nature: Marble pulpit in perpendicular gothicstyle carved by SM during his 7-year apprenticeship to John Aloysius O'Connell, St Patrick's Art Marble Works, Cork. (Later removed.)
Refs: Seamus Murphy, Stone Mad (London: Routlege & Keegan Paul,1966), 26-27 (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Aug 2010, for photograph see http://www.archiseek.com/content/attachment.php?attachmentid=10386&stc=1&d=1281561344 ).

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1921-22
Nature: Decoration, carried out by Craftworkers' Guild, Dublin. Cost: £1383.19s.
Refs: Parochial accounts of Fermoy parish (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).

Name: WATSON, JAMES, & CO. *
Building: CO. CORK, FERMOY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1937
Nature: Renovation of windows at cost of £313.5s.2d.
Refs: Parochial accounts of St Patrick's church, Fermoy (information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Aug 2010).