Holy Trinity Church Templebreedy, Gothic architecture parish church in Templebreedy, Ireland.
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of Ireland parish church near Crosshaven, built to William Burges's design and consecrated in 1868. It is a modest structure: the substantial tower planned for it was never built. Burges's biographer Joseph Mordaunt Crook points to the smooth plate tracery, the low-slung battered porch and the emphatic string courses as recognisable Burgesian trademarks. Inside, the chancel arch carries pelican-dragon corbels, and the east window holds stained glass made to Burges's designs by Lavers and Barraud.
William Burges designed this church as a replacement for an earlier building from 1778. Construction occurred in the 19th century and marked the renewal of religious architecture in the area.
The church near Crosshaven represents the Church of Ireland presence in the area and continues to serve its local community. It marks the evolving religious landscape of the region over time.
Holy Trinity Church stands near Crosshaven in County Cork, on a site chosen from the fields of the Crosshaven House estate. The church is an active parish church of the Church of Ireland, so visitors should time a look inside around services rather than assume open doors.
William Burges drew up a substantial tower for the church, modelled on the medieval campaniles of northern Italy and reproduced in the Irish Builder and Engineer of 15 April 1873. That journal called the finished tower one of the happiest architectural compositions it had described. The tower was never built, and the church stands today without it.
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