Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)

Name: ANTHONY, THOMAS [2]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1834-36
Nature: Contractor for church designed by G.R. Pain.
Refs: Cork Constitution 7 Nov 1834

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1834-36
Nature: New chapel-of-ease in parish of St Anne, Shandon. Cruciform, in 'Third Pointed' style, with tower and spire at W end.. Contractor: Thomas Anthony. (Destroyed by fire, Feb 1887.)
Refs: Cork Constitution 7 Nov 1834; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 423; APSD II, C,147; VI, P,7

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature: Proposed enlargement.
Refs: B 16, 7 Aug 1858, 539

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1872
Nature: Unsuccessful entrant in limited competition for extending church.
Refs: Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 246,249

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1873
Nature: Romanesque extensions (with W.H. Hill). £6000.
Refs: IB 15, 1 Apr,15 Sep 1873, 99,246(illus.)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1873
Nature: Proposed additions. TD entrant in limited competition for same..
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1873, no. 319,322; IB 14, 15 Jul 1872, 205; 15, 1 Apr 1873, 95; 16, 15 Dec 1874, 341(illus.)

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1873-1878
Nature: Romanesque extensions (with Sir John Benson). £6000. Consecrated, 14 Jan 1875. Re-opened 22 Sep 1878.
Refs: IB 15, 1 Apr,15 Sep 1873, 99,246,249(illus.); 16, 15 Dec 1874, 341; 20, 1 Oct 1878, 285;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 188, 23 Jan 1875, 7.

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1888-1889;1892
Nature: Rebuilding after destruction by fire on 9 Feb 1887. Consecrated 7 Feb 1889. Builder: Sisk. Communion rail by McGloughlin & Sons. Tower & spire donated by J.W. Leycester. Improvements, 1892.
Refs: IB 29, 1 Sep 1887, I; 30, 1 Dec 1888, 300; 31, 15 Mar,1 Apr 1889, 74,75(illus.),96; 34, 1 May 1892, 108; Jubilee No. 1909, 50; Architect 40, 19 Oct 1888, suppl, p.2;  Irish Times, 26 Nov 1888,8 Feb 1889;  Cork Almanack (1888)

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1912
Nature: Stained-glass window (Resurrection) attr.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 40

Name: LONSDALE, HORATIO WALTER *#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1914
Nature: Design for 2 stained-glass windows in porch (St Patrick & St Luke) and unexecuted designs for windows in narthex (Faith, Hope & Charity).
Refs: Designs, 1914, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SE 17/16 and SE18/15, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/n19tCcDgsF/MAIN_CAT/178920096/13 and http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/hmxkVoErFP/MAIN_CAT/237720086/13 (last visited May 2009).