Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1851-1857
Nature: New church. FS laid Oct or Nov 1851. Opened 20 Jul 1856 but unfinished. Completed by George Goldie and S.F. Hynes.
Refs: APSD 2, C, 147-8; B 9, 8 Nov,13 Dec 1851, 704,790; 10, 18 Sep 1852, 599; 15, 17 Jan 1857, 38; 24, 22 Dec 1866, 940; IB 26, 1 Jun 1884, 159

Name: HADFIELD & GOLDIE #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1859
Nature: Design for memorial altar and reredos exhibited at Architectural Exhibition, London, 1859. (Design given to Goldie in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal.)
Refs: B 17, 2 Apr 1859, 230;  Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 22 (Jun 1859), 189.

Name: GOLDIE, GEORGE #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1861
Nature: Alterations to interior, including altars, screens, stalls and other fittings. 5-light E. window filled with glass by Wailes, Newcastle. Stonework by Lane, Dublin.
Refs: Drawing of choir exh. Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865 (no. 160); B 17, 2 Apr 1859, 230; 19, 28 Sep 1861, 668; 24, 22 Dec 1866, 940; DB 7, 1 Jul 1865, 161; APSD, II, C, 147.

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1861ca
Nature: Glass in 5-light E window.
Refs: B 19, 28 Sep 1861, 668

Name: GOLDIE, GEORGE #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1866-1869
Nature: Addition of 20ft bay at W side of nave, square tower,at NW angle, 2 porches, sacristy and chapter room. Also new presbytery at right angle to W side. FS laid May 1867. Builder: Barry McMullen.
Refs: B 24, 22 Dec 1866, 940,941(illus.); 25, 25 May 1867, 374; IB 11, 15 Jul 1869, 165; IB Jubilee Number 1908, 50; JRIAI (1949), 8(illus.)

Name: HYNES, SAMUEL FRANCIS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1884-85
Nature: Completion, including new façade. Church originally designed by Sir John Benson. Re-opened 27 Dec 1885. Contractor: E. & P. O'Flynn, Watercourse Rd, Cork.
Refs: IB 26, 1 Jun 1884, 159; 28, 15 Jan 1886, 27

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (nformation from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: O'FLYNN, B., & SON
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUNDAYS WELL ROAD, CHURCH OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (RC)
Date: 1947
Nature: Retaining wall at rere.
Refs: IB 89, 13 Nov 1947, 938