Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1723-1726;1729
Nature: New church on site granted to Bishop Peter Browne by Cork Corporation. Built by subscriptions of parishioners. Payments by Cork Corporation for building new church, 1723-1726. Corporation Gallery to be made, Apr 1729. Described by Smith, 1749, as a neat, well-built church with a gallery at the W end.
Refs: Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 127;  APSD, C, 147; R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 430,451,466,483; ? Smith, History of Cork (1749), ?

Name: MARKS, EDWARD [2]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1818
Nature: 'Mr Marks' paid £1.14s.10d. for unspecified works, 1818.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: DEANE, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1818-1823
Nature: 'Mr Deane' paid total of £700 for roof between 1818 and 1823.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1850
Nature: Tenders invited for alterations and repairs, for Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Refs: B 8, 24 Aug 1850, 404

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PAUL STREET, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1876
Nature: Church reopened after improvements, including beautiful E window in memory of Mrs Bruce.  Panels behind communion table are to be filled with biblical sentences.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 211, 24 Nov 1876, 365.