Cork from the ground up: an architectural walkabout

Cork, from the ground up a walkabout looking upwards from the signage and carriage of streetscape

The former St. Nicholas church, on Cove Street

Much built about in a densely residential part of the city and with gated access from Cove Street and the steep Nicholas Church Lane, it is intriguingly elusive to the eye.

(microwave antennae here are an architectural sacrilege).

nearby: Red Abbey transept tower

an artillery observation post in the 1690 siege of Cork

South Chapel Dunbar Street 1766 a pre-emancipation RC church; note the Venetian window

Rutland Street

St. John's College (a Nonconformist gift to Cork)

St. Joachim & Anne's - a Gothic-Tudor cameo on Anglesea Street

Swinging back towards the city centre: Sawmill Street, off South Terrace

O L D S C H O O L H O U S E S U M M E R H I L L (leap-frogging two bridges across the Lee)

Thompson's Bakery building on MacCurtain St., leading to Summerhill and the Lr. Glanmire Rd. The brickwork and quoins of the tower suggest that it is a later—and surprisingly successful—addition (it also blots out a brick smokestack that looms directly behind it).

Junction of Summerhill and Lr. Glanmire Road (Cork's other 'Flatiron Building' is on Hanover Street)

(stepping one bridge back) on Parnell Place, a once worthy front

Parnell Place

Pembroke Street

Ceres, the corn goddess, on the site of the old Sutton's building, seedsmen, South Mall (her unlovely associate, Pan,old is Ceres, the corn goddess,the ongoat-footed the site of the around seedsmen, the corner)South Mall Suttons building,

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Grand Parade

Grand Parade / South Main Street: apse of Christ Church, now the Triskel Arts Centre

it is a Captain Thomas Teed who rests beside the portico

…moving up (and down) Patrick Street

Academy Street, off Patrick Street

D U N N E ' S

S T O R E S

old Lee Cinema frontage

(Cook Street)

Unitarian Church Prince's Street

English Market Prince's Street

Emmet Place/Drawbridge St. Early Morning…

…coffee

Paul Street

Rear of the former St Paul's Church, off Paul Street: good old 'pepper and salt' once again, in contrast to the cut limestone of the Paul St. frontage

St. Paul's what a pity the churchyard is not better preserved

Bridewell Garda Stn.

Kyrl's Street

Kyrl's Street, off Cornmarket Street

St Peter's Arts Centre North Main Street

Tudor chimneypiece excavatedfrom fromSkiddy's Skiddy’s Castle Tudor chimneypiece excavated Castle nowhigh fixedon high on a N.M.St. frontage now visible a North Main Street frontage

migrant, forgotten archway off Kyrl's Quay/ N.M.Street for its history, see: Cork,Like on YayCork.ie

on nearby Grattan Street

Cliffhanger

(Rock Steps, North Mall)

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Upper John Street

Old Mill Apartments Lr. John St.

Stacks

an odd place to find a tall one, as here behind the Holy Trinity friary on Fr. Matthew St., off South Mall - the mill has long gone

Cross-channel: old Beamish&Crawford stables – yes, stables! near St. Fin Barre's Cathedral

old Eye,Ear&Throat Hospital, Western Road

Connaught Avenue Boer War memorial: erected, so the inscription reads, in memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the County and City of Cork who lost their lives

in the service of the Empire

After decades of hostile neglect, now in pristine restoration!

Honan Chapel, UCC

Crawford Observatory (1880) UCC

See also 'Cork banks-of-the-Lee walk' on issuu.com/shorecrab

skywards also: Lee Road Waterworks Italianate influences are evident in its architecture