Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MONKSTOWN, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)

Name: PUGIN & ASHLIN
Building: CO. CORK, MONKSTOWN, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1867-1873
Nature: New French Gothic church. To cost £3,000. FS laid 1870. Finished 1872-73. Spire completed 1881. (Letter from J. Burns, a parishioner, to Dr Gerard Hyland states that church was opened in 1871 and spire built 1876-77.)
Refs: Undated drawing and copies of perspective view (1867) in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman Collection, Acc. 76/1.129/1-4;  IB 9, 1 Oct,1 Dec 1867, 263,308 (illus.); JCHAS (1927), 96; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'A Victorian Partnership - the architecture of Pugin & Ashlin', in J. Graby, ed.,150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 1839-1989, (RIAI, 1989), 59;  information from Dr Gerard Hyland.

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. CORK, MONKSTOWN, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic floors in sanctuary and Lady chapel.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, MONKSTOWN, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1964
Nature: Tenders invited for carrying out renovations, alterations & additions, Jun 1864
Refs: IB 106, 20 Jun 1964, 497