Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (CI, BRIGOWN PARISH)

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (CI, BRIGOWN PARISH)
Date: 1830
Nature: Church (of 1804) enlarged and tower and spire added. Cost: £1,800. 500 donated by Earl of Kingston.
Refs: Datestone on building (E McP.); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 225; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 118-119(illus.).;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 371.

Name: GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *#
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (CI, BRIGOWN PARISH)
Date: 1879p
Nature: Lancet window in N wall of nave (christ as Good Shepherd) in memory of Mona, infant daughter of Courtenay and JessIe Moore (d.1879)
Refs: Gloine, www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3251/ Last visited, Mar 2014).

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1]
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (CI, BRIGOWN PARISH)
Date: 1883-84
Nature: Church reopened, Sep 1884, after having been shut for 12 months for extensive alterations and repairs costing £1,300.  Chancel added in memory of James, 5th Earl of Kingston. Repewed. Handsome E window presented by Countess of Kingston.  Caen stone pulpit in memory of Rev. Richard Hastings Graves, DD.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 25 no. 166, 10 Mar 1883, 202;  Irish Times, 30 Sep 1884;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 371.