Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, GRATTAN STREET, QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

Name: BEALE, GEORGE THOMAS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, GRATTAN STREET, QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
Date: 1833-34
Nature: New 7-bay meeting house and almshouse block, replacing existing buildings. Cost: £3,338 including furnishings. (Now Cork Southern Board for Public Assistance).
Refs: J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; Richard S. Harrison, A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers (1997), 28-29; David M. Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland (2004), 108-110(illus.)

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, GRATTAN STREET, QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
Date: 1834
Nature: GRP and George Thomas Beale invited to submit plans for new meeting house on site acquired in 1833. Those of Beale selected. Pain paid £10 for his design.
Refs: David M. Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland (2004), 110