Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne

Cathedral in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1805–1810

Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic cathedral, dated 1808. Five-stage tower at front (west) elevation erected c. 1860. Originally built on a rectangular plan with extension c. 1960 adding square-plan sanctuary tower to east elevation by J.R. Boyd Barrett, creating a loose T-plan with five-bay nave and three-bay chancel to east. Polygonal lady’s chapel to north-west having conical roof. Gable-fronted entrance porch and flat-roofed porch, side chapel and sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, pinnacles to corners of towers, and profiled metal rainwater goods. Flat-roof to 1960s sacristy, sanctuary tower and porch to side (south) elevation. Limestone corbelled eaves course at south elevation. Coursed rubble sandstone walls to western tower with stepped chamfered ashlar limestone plinth course, dressed limestone string courses to each stage, dressed limestone quoins, stepped corner buttresses, clustered crocketed pinnacles and terminating in open-work parapet. Gabled stepped buttresses between bays to south elevation of nave. Squared-and-snecked sandstone walling to lady’s chapel with ashlar limestone plinth course. Pre-cast concrete and faced stone walling to 1960s extensions, having concrete dressings and gabled buttresses separating bays. Ashlar limestone to porch, side chapel and sacristy to south-east. Pointed arch window opening at fron

Type:
Cathedral

Period:
1805–1810

Where:
Cork, Ireland

Coordinates:
51.90°N, 8.48°W

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