West Cork Heritage Centre
Church/chapel in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1600–1620
Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built c.1610, with later additions, alterations and renovations. Three-bay double-height nave having transepts to east, later chancel to east with vestry to south, later porch to south-west, lean-to addition to west of southern transept, two-stage bell tower to south-west corner. Recent flat roof outbuilding to side (west) elevation of nave. Pitched slate roofs with tooled stone and recent render coping to gables, rubble stone eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Exposed rubble stone walls with tooled limestone quoins to nave, transepts and chancel. Rendered wall to east elevation of nave. Tooled stone date plaque to front elevation of nave. Battered dressed stone walls to front porch with corner buttresses to east and west elevations and tooled stone string course. Battered coursed dressed rubble stone walls to vestry with tooled limestone quoins. Dressed rubble stone walls to bell tower with tooled stone string course surmounted by ashlar dressed limestone helmed octagonal spire having tooled stone hood moulding forming gables with carved limestone finials springing from masked limestone corbels. Cast-iron weather vane surmounting spire. Group of three pointed arch window openings to nave and transepts having tooled limestone voussoirs, surrounds, mullions, sills and cast-iron quarry-glazed windows. Group of five p
- Type:
- Church/chapel
- Period:
- 1600–1620
- Where:
- Cork, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 51.75°N, 8.74°W
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