Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: TURNERELLI, PETER *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1815p
Nature: Monument to Bishop Francis Moylan.
Refs: J. Gilmartin, 'Peter Turnerelli, Sculptor', BIGS 10. Pt. 4 (1967), 11; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 84

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1823
Nature: 27 figures, altar frontal ?and carving of last supper (all pinewood), for John Murphy, bishop of Cork). (Lost in remodelling of church in 1965 but found again and reinstalled in catedral.))
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 163;  information from Roger Herlihy, Cork (Sep 2010).

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1828-1830
Nature: Remodelling of church of 1808 after destruction by fire of much of interior in 1820. GRP designed elaborate ceiling in Third Pointed style, also transepts and apse (removed in 1963-4). but complete plan for renovation not carried out.
Refs: APSD II, C,147; VI, P,7; JCHAS (1943), 26; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 199

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1842p
Nature: Wall monument to Bishop John England (d. 1842).
Refs: Elevation in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe, Co. Cork (photographed by IAA, neg. no. S/2307/13)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1851,1854-5
Nature: Reconstruction comprising new tower, lengthening of nave, insertion of stone-mullioned windows.Second Pointed style. FS of tower laid 25 Mar 1850. Extension of nave already completed and 'arch on which the steeple is to rest...just springing from the solid pillars which form its base', Apr 1851. (Steeple never added).
Refs: Plans and elevations sold Mealy's, 4 Dec 2012, Lot 530, illus. in catalogue, p. 49 (copy in IAA, RP.C.107.5); Cork Examiner, 25 Mar 1850,7 Apr 1851 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Sep 2010); B 9, 8 Nov 1851, 704; 11, 22 Jan 1853, 60; 15, 17 Jan 1857, 38; APSD, Vol. 2, C, 147

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1853
Nature: Memorial (marble relief) to Rev. Dr John Murphy, Bishop of Cork (1772-1847). (Lost during remodelling of the church in 1964.)
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 141; illus. in H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880, (UAHS, 1975), 51

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1878
Nature: Communion rail (proposed).
Refs: Detail drawing, Dec 1878 (or 1888?), in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.34/1

Name: LAWLOR, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1889
Nature: Bronze statue of Bishop Delany in front of cathedral.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010),  179-180(illus.).

Name: HYNES, SAMUEL FRANCIS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1901
Nature: Choir stalls, pulpit & bishop's throne. Work carried out by Sharp & Emery.
Refs: IB 43, 29 Aug 1901, 844

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work. (Gone by 2007, probably lost in reordering of 1964.)
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca.

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1964-1967
Nature: Alterations, extension & additions costing £250,000.
Refs: IB 107, 18 Dec 1965, 853; 109, 11 Apr 1964, 269

Name: HYNES, SAMUEL FRANCIS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Baptistry and sacristy.
Refs: Richard J. Hodges, Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century (1911), 225