Selected: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE
Name: | SANDYS, FRANCIS [1] |
Building: | CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE |
Date: | 1771 |
Nature: | FS exhibits 'elevation of a building proposed for an almshouse intended to be built at Mitchelstown...for reduced gentlemen and gentlewomen' at Society of Artists in Ireland, 1771 (no. 81). |
Refs: | ALEI, II, 639 |
Name: | MORRISON, JOHN [1] |
Building: | CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE |
Date: | 1771-1776 |
Nature: | JM's plans chosen (but built - or completed? - to design of Oliver Grace). |
Refs: |
MS correspondence re same, May 1775-Apr 1881, in NLI, Limerick Papers, PC 875, Bundles 8/35,37,75, 15/5,8,24, 19/7, 22/4,5,11 (information from Anthony Malcomson); Freeman's Journal, 23-26 Mar 1771; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 1-2; F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 34(illus.),35; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20818022 (last visited, Feb 2017); exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 371. |
Name: | GRACE, OLIVER |
Building: | CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE |
Date: | 1775ca-1881 |
Nature: | John Morrison's plans chosen but built - or completed? - to design of OG. |
Refs: | Freeman's Journal, 23-26 Mar 1771; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 1-2; F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 34(illus.),35 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, KINGSTON COLLEGE |
Date: | 1876-77 |
Nature: | Chapel being repewed 'in the modern style'; 'huge box-stall pews, and towering two-decker...swept away'. other improvents include new pulpit, reading desk, communion rail and stained glass E window. Reopened Apr 1877. (Shallow chancel presumably added at this time.) |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 210, 24 Oct 1876, 325; 19, no. 216, 1 Apr 1877, 118. |