Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [1]
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1806
Nature: 'Ed. Shanahan' named as architect of spire by Townsend. Cost: £964. (According to Lewis, tower 'in 1806 was surmounted with an octagonal spire of hewn limestone, at an expense of £964' )
Refs: Horatio Townsend, Statistical Survey of Co. Cork (1810), ?

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1836ca
Nature: '…the church is now being rebuilt on an enlarged scale by the addition of a south transept, which will render it perfectly cruciform' (Lewis).
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 535.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1837p
Nature: Monument to Rev. Horatio Townsend with Good Samaritan relief.
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: New cut-stone E window. (Stained glass lights of 4 Evangelists inserted, 1907.)
Refs: Charles A,. Webster, The Cathedral Church of St Fachtna, Ross (1927), ?;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 374.

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: Proposed restoration.
Refs: Drawing (sections), annotated 'Windows approved of C[?] Es Cork Ap. 5 1880', in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe, Co. Cork (photographed by IAA, neg. nos. S/2323/17,S/2324/1)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1889
Nature: New open roof.
Refs: Charles A,. Webster, The Cathedral Church of St Fachtna, Ross (1927), ?

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1892;1895
Nature: Galleries removed, new communion rails, 1892. Sanctuary mosaics, bishop's throne, new chairs, lectern, W door and doorway (after Cormac's chapel), 1895.
Refs: Charles A,. Webster, The Cathedral Church of St Fachtna, Ross (1927), ?

Name: HILL, ARTHUR
Building: CO. CORK, ROSSCARBERY, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST FACHTNA (CI)
Date: 1896
Nature: New stalls designed by AH, who also presented ironwork for W door.
Refs: Charles A,. Webster, The Cathedral Church of St Fachtna, Ross (1927), ?