Saint Patrick's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1810–1870

Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1811, remodelled c. 1820, enlarged 1842, and remodelled 1867. Comprising four-bay nave elevations, single-bay gabled transepts, and hipped-roofed projection with attached gabled chancel to east. Entrance front of three bays having central doorway flanked by lower doorways and with west window to upper level flanked by lower windows, openings framed by buttresses. Three-stage square-plan tower to north, with steeple, attached to west elevation of west transept and attached to nave by single-bay single-storey pitched-roofed link. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to south elevation, single-bay double-height castellated extensions to east elevations of transepts, and multiple-bay single-storey flat-roofed recent extensions to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with dressed sandstone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, vents and dressed limestone coping to gables, with carved limestone pinnacles and carved limestone cross finials to chancel and west gables. Carved limestone cornice to flat roof of south porch. Render castellation to transept extensions. Render eaves courses to flat-roofed east extensions. Carved limestone stepped parapet to link, with recessed panel having decorative cross motif in relief. Dressed limestone steeple to tower with cast-iron cross finial, incised quatrefoil m

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1810–1870

Where:
Cork, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.14°N, 8.28°W

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