Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)

Name: BYRNE, FRANCIS BARRY #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date: 1927-1931
Nature: New reinforced concrete church, commissioned early 1927. Work started Mar 1929. FS laid 21 Jul 1929. Consecrated Oct 1931 when 'not yet...quite completed'. Execution supervised by J.R. Boyd Barrett. Clerk of Works: A.J. Daly, BE. Contractor: John Buckley, Cork. Mosaic mural by H.V. McGoldrick, An Tur Gloine. Terrazzo work by John O'Hara & Co., Dublin. Total cost will approach £30,000.
Refs: Photocopies of letters from BB and J.R. Boyd Barrett to Bishop Daniel Cohalan, 1927-31, outline specifications, n.d. and statement of contracts, 1932, in IAA; AJ 67, 4 Apr 1928, 489; Architectural Record 65 (May 1929), 463-466(illus.); American Architect 138 (Nov 1930), 52-3(illus.); IB 71, 3 Aug 1929, 703; 73, 25 Apr,21 Nov 1931, 372,1018(illus.); 74, 13 Aug 1932, 723(illus. in advertisement); 78, 2 May,8 Aug 1936, 366,687; B 148?, 4 Mar,8 Apr 1932, 423-4(illus.),641(illus.);  Irish Times, 26 Oct,2 Nov 1931, 17 Mar 1932(illus.);  Architect & Building News 130, 1 Apr 1932, 5,9-11 (illus.) Capuchin Annual 12 (1941), 84-5; 22 (1953-4), 123; JCHAS (1943), 27; Sally Chappell, 'Barry Byrne: Architecture and Writings', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1968, 95; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 155-168;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 17-19(illus.).

Name: DALY, ARTHUR JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date: 1927-1931
Nature:  AJD clerk of works for building of same.
Refs:  Irish Times, 17 Mar 1932.

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date: 1928-1931
Nature: Supervising architect of design by Barry Byrne of Chicago
Refs: IB 70, 15 Sep 1928, 798; 71, 3 Aug 1929, 703; T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981),230; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 155-168; photocopies of letters from BB and J.R. Boyd Barrett to Bishop Daniel Cohalan, 1927-31, outline specifications, n.d. and statement of contracts, 1932, in IAA.

Name: STORRS, JOHN HENRY BRADLY *#
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date: 1930
Nature: Relief of Christ the King at main entrance to church.
Refs: Copy letters from Storrs fo J.R. Boyd Barrett in IAA, RP.D.197

Name: MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date: 1935-36
Nature: Opus sectile mosaic (Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), 40.