Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SHARMAN CRAWFORD STREET, ST MARIE'S OF THE ISLE CONVENT OF MERCY

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SHARMAN CRAWFORD STREET, ST MARIE'S OF THE ISLE CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1850-51;1869
Nature: New convent in First Pointed style; red stone with limestone dressings. FS laid 2 May 1850. Chapel added, 1869.
Refs: Cork Examiner, 3 May 1850 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Sep 2010); B 8, 7 Dec 1850, 582-3(illus.); 9, 13 Dec 1851, 790; DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 297; designs exh. at National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork, 1852 (nos. 4,169); APSD, II, C, 147; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 243,248,249.

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SHARMAN CRAWFORD STREET, ST MARIE'S OF THE ISLE CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1957
Nature: Extension to new nurses' home.
Refs: IB 99, 14 Dec 1957, 1016