1865 – Trinity Church and School, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Welland & Gillespie
Church for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
Church for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
The chapel was designed in a Romanesque style to blend in with the existing convent buildings –
Constructed to replace a church originally built in 1732 and re-built in 1772.
The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Fallon in 1858.
Originally designed by its architect George Goldie as a retreat house,
In 1863 William Hague won a competition with a £20 premium to design church and manse.
In the Lombardo-Venetian style, and described as “a style particularly suitable for the site on which it is erected,
Architecturally one of the finest churches in Cork city,
St Mary’s stands on a pretty elevated site next to the entrance to Howth Castle.
The architect of the new church,