Holy Trinity Church Cork

Cork's Capuchin community(click link below), of which Fr Mathew was a member, was originally located at Blackmoor Lane, where their first chapel was built. When that became inadequate for their needs, Fr Mathew selected a site on Charlotte Quay (now Fr Mathew Quay) for a new church and friary. The foundation stone of Holy Trinity Church was laid on 10 Oct 1832. Work on the George Richard Pain's designed building was hampered by site difficulties and lack of funds. The unfinished church was consecrated on 10 Oct 1850, Fr Mathew's birthday.A friary designed by Robert Walker, was built beside the church in the late 1880's.In 1890, the centenary of Fr Mathew's birth, a competition was announced for the completion of the church. Dominic Coakley's successful design reduced the scale of G.R.Pain's original plan; the spire and facade were added in 1891. The church contains a beautiful stained glass memorial window "to the memory of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator of his fellow catholics from the inflictions of the penal code". A replica of the Crucifix of San Damiano - "the Crucifix that spoke to St Francis of Assisi" is also contained here.

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