Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, METHODIST CHURCH

Name: MARKS, EDWARD [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1805
Nature: EM architect of new chapel. Cost:£2,272.  Opened, Apr 1805.
Refs: Cork Constitution, 1 Nov 1855 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jan 2012);  Rev. C.H. Strong, History of Cork Methodism (Cork, 1905), ?.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1855
Nature: Improvements, including replacement of large window in W wall with 3 new ones, new ceiling, new platform,   repositioning of entrance porch to be nearer St Patrick's Street, insertion of iron panels in entrance doors, gilding of organ. Cost: £500. Church reopened, 4 Nov 1855.
Refs: Cork Constitution, 1 Nov 1855 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jan 2012);  Rev. C.H. Strong, History of Cork Methodism (Cork, 1905), ?.

Name: WALKER, ROBERT [4]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1872-73
Nature: Compete internal rearrangment inluding new wainscotting, seats & fittings. Hot water heating installed. Contractor: Charles Wilson Atkins, Cork. Cost: £1,343.
Refs: IB 15, 15 Apr 1873, 109; Rev. C.H. Strong, History of Cork Methodism (1905), ?

Name: HILL, HENRY HOUGHTON
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1922
Nature: Rebuilding of porch as war memorial. Exterior of Aberdeen granite with door recess in Portland stone.  Interior panelled in Japanese oak, Devonskre marble pilasters, Floor of black, white and Connemara marble.  Contractors: Daniel Hegarty & Sons, Cork. Dedicated 1922.
Refs: Building News 122, 17 Feb 1922, 122; 127, 12 Dec 1924, 491(illus.); IB 64, 11 Feb 1922, 86;  Irish Times, 24 Apr 1925(illus.).