Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1837a
Nature: 'The church... is a spacious and venerable structure, for the repair and enlargement of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have £1361.'(Lewis)  According to Costegalde & Walker works included of raising of outer walls of side aisles & north transept so that one roof covered  entire structure.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 233; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 368 (illus.).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1854;1856-57
Nature: Works ordered by Ecclesiastical Commissioners: removal of interior woodwork & flooring; new floor of paving, cement and Bath stone in passages & chancel; replacing of woodwork; throwing transept into church; new robing room by S transept; walk on S side of church. Contractor: Hunter, Bandon.
Refs: Drawings, 1854,1856-7, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/1930-1940;  JCHAS (1893), 36

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1891
Nature: New brown oak pulpit, clergy seat and prayer desk in 15th cent. Gothic style.
Refs: IB 33, 15 Mar 1891, 62

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1]
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1894;1904
Nature: Restoration & repairs. Scheme prepared 1894 but not carried out until 1904. Contractor: J. Sisk, Cork.
Refs: Set of 5 drawings, dated 1894, in IAA, Acc. 98/88 (no. 1, 2 & 4 repr. in J.L. Darling, St Multose Church, Kinsale, as it was, as it is, and as it ought to be (Cork, 1895); IB 46, 26 Mar,4 Jun 1904, 190,358

Name: O'BRIEN, CATHERINE *
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1912?
Nature: Stained glass windows in memory of Daunt familyand of Nora Dorman, sister of Lennox Robinson (in N chapel)
Refs: Notes by Rory O'Donnell (B. of I.)

Name: HILL, HENRY HOUGHTON
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: 1951-53
Nature: Restoration undertaken by S.H. Dorman in memory of William Dorman. Architect: 'the late H.H. Hill'. Contractor: John Hornibrook. Work included receiling of chancel.
Refs: IB 95, 14 Feb 1953, 167; Guide to St Multose, Kinsale (Acton Press, Kinsale, n.d.)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, KINSALE, CHURCH OF ST MULTOSE (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed rebuilding.
Refs: Signed, undated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 9