Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)

Name: MAGUIRE, - *
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1722
Nature: Maguire paid £10 for carving king's arms over N door in N aisle.
Refs: Hugh F. Berry, The Cathedral Church of St Colman's, Cloyne (Cork, 1937), ?

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1773-1776
Nature: Choir repaired (and lengthened?) by Charles Agar, Bishop of Cloyne, in Gothic/Italian style. New organ screen. Caulfield records order to lengthen choir westward(?), 1773, and taking down of Great Arch(choir arch?), 1774.
Refs: Richard Colt Hoare, Journal of a tour in Ireland, AD 1806 (1807), ?; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; R. Caulfield, Annals of the Cathedral of St Coleman, Cloyne (1882), ?

Name: HEFFERNAN, JAMES *
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1823p
Nature: Monument to Bishop William Bennett (d.1820), Bishop of Cloyne and vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Represents an Indian kneeling under a palm tree with his hands clasped on a bible. (According to Lawson, monument was designed by 'Willes' (the Cork painter, William Willes?), but executed by Heffernan.)
Refs: RA 1823 (no. 1126) ('to be erected'); J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842); W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 470; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 48;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 91-92(illus.).

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1845ca
Nature: Memorial (marble relief) to John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne (1763-1835) possibly by Hogan.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 135

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1856ca
Nature: Partial restoration, including new stone mullioned windows in choir, removal of 'small portion' of galleries in choir. Work at W end criticized by Edward Fitzgerald in communication to Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Mar 1856 '…the whole has been completely cemented over, cut stone, mouldings, foliaged capitals and all! Even the sculptured human heads which formed the teminations of the hood mouldings over the great entrance door were knocked away, and replaced with a pair of bearded casts seemingly made from one mould'.
Refs: JRSAI 4 (1856-57), 34-35 (partly reprinted inB 14, 29 Mar 1856, 180); APSD, C, 106

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Very handsome 3-light window just erected as family memorial. Represents Ascension, Raising of Lazarus and Angel at the Tomb. By Mayer & Co., 70 Grosvenor St, London.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 234, 1 Sep 1878, 257;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3246/ (last visited, Dec 1878).

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1882
Nature: New 2-light window of Munich glass (Christ walking on water; diestribution of loaves and fishes) erected in memory of Rev. T.B. McCreery, late reader, in  N aisle of nave to correspond with Munich window in N transept.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 2, 14 Jan 1882, 35;  illus. in Gloine., http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3246/ (last visited, Oct 2016), where it is attributed to Cox, Sons, Buckley & Co..

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1884
Nature: Windows on N side of choir.
Refs: Hugh F. Berry, The Cathedral Church of St Colman's, Cloyne (Cork, 1937), ?

Name: JOY, ALBERT BRUCE *
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Berkeley monument in form of altar tomb with recumbent figure. Letter 'B' on stone near monument marks burial place of his 2 children Sarah & William)
Refs: JRSAI 27 (1897), 335-337; Hugh F. Berry, The Cathedral Church of St Colman's, Cloyne (Cork, 1937), ?;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 235(illus.).

Name: HILL, ARTHUR
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Improvements, including new rafters, resting on stone corbels. Builder: W. O'Connell & Co., Cork. Cost defrayed by an anonymous donor in India.
Refs: IB 53, 14 Oct 1911, 693

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 'He carried out important restorations at Cloyne Cathedral…'
Refs: Obituary of Hill in IB 29, 1 Jun 1887, 150

Name: MORRISON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Monument to Hugh Lumley.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 1

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. CORK, CLOYNE, CATHEDRAL OF ST COLMAN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained-glass E window given by the Rev. William Wilkinson in memory of John & Mary Wilkinson.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2607/results (last visited Jul 2009).