1943 – St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Cork

Church embedded into the streetscape following the existing parapet and property lines. With its cut stone and Hiberno-Romanesque doorway, the church could be easily ignored as a piece of catholic institutional architecture, except for its unusual window arrangment. The original church on the site was originally by George Pain, with this newer church constructed between 1937-1943.

The church has two large and striking windows by Gabriel Loire (1904-96), completed about 1972. These windows measure 12.5 metres in height and about 2 metres wide; the glass is solid coloured, not stained, glass. This glass is approximately 26 millimetres thick and is described as “dalle-de-verre”, flagstones of glass, set in concrete and forming an integral load-bearing part of the building.

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