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St Mary's Church

County Cork, IE

St Mary's Church

St. Mary's Dominican Church and Priory, Pope's Quay in Cork, Ireland, is run by the Dominican Order. It serves as a local church and a priory housing a community of Dominican friars, and a novitiate for the order. Building of the church on the Pope's Quay site commenced in 1832, and the church opene

d on October 20, 1839, with Daniel O'Connell in attendance. The architect was Kearns Deane, a Protestant and from the Deane family of architects, for no charge, and Fr B.T. Russell was responsible for delivering the church. In 1850 architect William Atkins built the priory in a neo-Romanesque style. George Goldie designed all the elements of the sanctuary (including the pulpit and the high altar). Extensive renovations to the church took place in 1991. The St Martin's Chapel, at St. Mary's which was added in 1972, was restored and renovated in 2017. From 2020 until 2022, the Dominicans at St. Mary's hosted and supported an independent private secondary school, Mater Dei Academy. In 2022, this school moved to the Farranferris Education and Training Campus. A chapter of the Lay Dominicans meets in the pastoral centre, also, counseling services are offered from the centre, as well as being used...

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