Selected: CO. CORK, CLONAKILTY, CONVENT OF MERCY
| Name: | SCANNELL, PATRICK * |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CLONAKILTY, CONVENT OF MERCY |
| Date: | 1865-66 |
| Nature: | Contractor for new Lombardic style chapel designed by Pugin & Ashlin. |
| Refs: | DB 8, 1 Jul 1866, 166,170(illus.) |
| Name: | PUGIN & ASHLIN |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CLONAKILTY, CONVENT OF MERCY |
| Date: | 1865-66;1869;1879 |
| Nature: | New chapel. Lombardic style adopted 'as being more in harmony with the existing building'. FS laid 4 Apr 1866. 1st mass, 21 Apr 1867. Dedicated 1 May 1867. Contractor: P. Scannell, Cork. Estimated cost: £1,600. |
| Refs: |
Details of choir and design for stalls, 1869, and design for entrance gates & railings, 1879, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1/26; DB 7, 1 Dec 1865, 286; 8, 1 Jul 1866, 166,170(illus.); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), ?; 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, citing letter from convent archivist. |