Church of the Most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Church/chapel in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1870–1875

Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, completed 1872. Single-bay front (north-east) elevation, four-bay nave with two-bay double-pile transepts to sides (north-west, south-east). Five-bay canted-front chancel with clerestory and half-dormer, single-bay sacristy and chapel to rear (south-west). Four-stage bell tower to north-east corner. Pitched slate roofs throughout with fish scale banding, having cast-iron rainwater goods and ashlar sandstone gable copings with cruciform finials. Ashlar sandstone and limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Hipped slate roof with gilded cruciform pinnacle to chancel. Ornate heavily decorated tooled limestone pinnacle to bell tower. Central square-profile lantern with dwarf gallery surmounted by crocheted spire with wrought-iron finial. Flanked to corners by flying buttresses and corner-sited square-profile pinnacles. Ashlar limestone gablets to each elevation, having central blond multiple-foil roses and blind quatrefoil balustrades. Snecked sandstone walls with tooled limestone quoins, having chamfered limestone plinth. Ashlar sandstone sill and springer courses to nave, transepts and chancel. Sandstone buttresses with pitched caps and tooled limestone quoins. Trefoil-headed statuary recesses with marble column plinths to side elevations of transepts and east elevation of bell tower, having block-and-star

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1870–1875

Where:
Cork, Ireland

Coordinates:
51.85°N, 8.33°W

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