Name: |
ATKINS, WILLIAM |
Building: |
CO. CORK, WHITEGATE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI, CORKBEG PARISH) |
Date: |
1881 |
Nature: |
Gothic, with wheel window in W. gable. To seat about 140 people. 65 x 27 ft. Sandstone with cut limestone dressings, interior lined with read brick with bands and string courses of black and white brick. 3-light E window 'of remarkable beauty'. 'The credit of the erection of this beautiful church may be given chiefly to Mr R.U.P Fitzgerald, who not alone contributed so largely to the necessary funds, but also worked heartily at even the manual labour, a great deal of the carving of the woodwork in the interior being the work of his own hands.' Consecrated 23 Apr 1881. Contractor: Samuel Hill, Cork. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no 70, 30 Apr 1881, 306; IB 23, 1 May 1881, 142; Stratten's Directroy (1892), ?; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 247,249.
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Name: |
GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *# |
Building: |
CO. CORK, WHITEGATE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI, CORKBEG PARISH) |
Date: |
1911ca |
Nature: |
2 lancet windows in W wall of nave representing Archangel Michael (in memory of Francis Edwards, Frank Hodges, Rev. William Myers Woolsey and Frank Woolsey). Also rose window (Angels and Musicians, in memory of Rev. William Myers Woolsey ) in upper W wall of nave.
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Refs: |
Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3240/ (last visited, Mar 2014).
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