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Rh CORK. 655 CORK. cing the bridge, is a haudsorae Doric portico of four .Iiimns, surmounted by a pediment, the design having r 11 harrowed from the Temple of Bacchus, at Athens. i tic asylum for the county and city of Cork has en removed from the Black Rock-road to the Lee-road, he new building is a hideous structure, like an over- own cruet-stand. The other public buildings deserving >tice arc the custom-house, post-office, Union poor- mse, savings-bank, branches of the Bank of Ireland id Provincial Bank, National Joint-stock Bank, Butter e, and several clubhouses, of which the County ub, built in 1826 by Messrs. Pain, at the expense of iout4,000, is probably the handsomest building of its -,i>; llir front, which faces the South Mall, consists of a stic basement, from which rise three columns of the mposite order, supporting an entablature and cornice, ic episcopal palace of the bishop of the united dioceses Cork, Cloyne, and Ross was built by Bishop Mann nveen the years 1772 and 1789; it is situated on the bank of the river, surrounded by fine grounds and nlcns. The deanery, situated on the S. side of the '.is a good modern house, known as Dean's >urt. The Cork Institution, founded in 1807, where e new school of design, Cork library, museum, -union theatre, diocesan library, situated near the thedral, agricultural association, temperance institu-
 * Cuvu'rian and Literary Societies hold their meet-
 * i, Xnrth and South infirmaries, with school of

lysie, one fever and two lying-in hospitals, Rotunda, ihenaeuin, to which the statue of Pitt, from the insion-house, has been removed, deaf and dumb yluni, and a general dispensary. Cork is the head .; a dioceso, in the province of Dublin, to which Ross IB annexed in 1583, and Cloyne in 1836. It embraces arly the whole of the county of Cork, comprising 8 ral deaneries and 196 parishes, or more correctly , benefices, as more than half the parishes are ions. The bishop's income is 2,498. The chapter nsists of a dean, archdeacon, precentor, chancellor, divided into seven parishes, including the cathedral, lich also serves, by permission of the chapter, as the rish church of St. Finbarr. The old fabric contained ) shrine of St. Finbarr, to whom the church is dedi- ' ed, and, before the siege in 1690, had near it a round ATT. The church itself was rebuilt between 1725 and 35, the oxpcnsc being defrayed by a duty of I*, per . c in all coal and culm imported into Cork for five years. present structure is of the Doric order, except the ei. which was rebuilt about the beginning of the h century, at the cost of 500, defrayed by the qiter. It is surmounted by a lofty octagonal spire ' hewn stone, under which is the principal entrance. - the choir is a plain Venetian window, and on the S. >:0 is the chapter-hall, where the consistorial court is lid. In the interior is the bishop's throne, of black sh oak; the prebendal stalls, which are elegantly wished; and a beautiful white marble monument to I ief Baron Tracton. It is now determined to rebuild 'athedral on the site of the present building, from a .mincent design by Mr. Burgess, estimated to cost The living of St. Finbarr is a rect., appro- lute to the dean and chapter and vicars-choral. The uss value of the deanery is 630 12.s. lid. The funds t the dissolved preceptory of St. John of Jerusalem Me granted by Charles II. to support choral service in cathedral, which is shamefully neglected. These ii'ls amount to something over 300 per annum; i-re are besides four vicars-choral, the net annual 18 of earh is 305 6.. 9rf. On the demise of the -'lit vicars-choral (of whom two are deceased), the I 1 Is lapse into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Com- i-iioners, who pay four stipendaries. The chapter fids amount in addition to 400 per annum. The ig of Christ Church is a vie. and rect., the former
 * asurer, and at present 12 prebendaries. The city
 * the patron, of the bishop; the latter constitutes

t corps of the prebend (now honorary) of the same i_ le in the cathedral church, and is in the gift of the ' ' .vn. The church, which was rebuilt in 1 7 20, and again in 1829, is 97 feet by 57, with a richly panelled ceiling resting on ranges of Ionic pillars of scagliola. The living of St. Peter is a vie., held by the archdeacon, in conjunc- tion with four reels., together constituting the union and corps of the archdeaconry, gros value 957 8s. oil., after deduction for curates, &c., 680, in the patron, of the bishop. The old church of St. Peter, the tower of which Earned one of the defences of the city wall, was taken down in 1770, and the present structure has lately built a handsome tower and spire, and otherwise beauti- fied the structure. The livings of St. Anne and St. Mary, Shandon, are both reels., val. respectively 790 17s. Id. and 385 1*. Id., in the alternate patron, of the Duke of Leinster and Mountiford Longfield, Esq., of Castle- rnary. The church of St. Anne has a tower 190 feet high, conspicuous from most parts of the city. A chapel-of-ease to this parish was erected in 1836, near the Brickfields ; it is in the later English style of architecture, with a tower surmounted by a light and elegant spire at the V. end, and two lofty pinnacles at the E. The parish of St. Paul was formed in 1726 out of the districts of East Marsh, in the parish of St. Mary, Shandon, and Dunscombe Marsh, in that of Christ Church; the living is a rect., val. 251 7. 2d., in the patron, of the Duke of Leinster and Mountiford Long- field, Esq. The church is a small Grecian edifice, erected by subscription on land presented by the cor- poration. The living of St. Nicholas is a rect., with six others constituting the corps of the chancellorship, and in the patron, of the bishop. The total income in 1862 was 485 3s., total expenditure 233 18. Id., leaving net val. 251 4s. 5d. The old church, formerly a chapel-of-ease to St. Finbarr's, was some years back taken down, and the finest palish church in the city erected in its stead ; it is built of cut limestone, with N. and S. transepts, and a chancel fitted up with choir benches and stalls, covered with crimson cloth, where choral service is performed every Sunday throughout the year by an amateur choir, and on Wednesday evenings between September and May. The service is said to be the best conducted in the South of Ireland, and is attended by the largest regular congregation, numbering upwards of 1,000 persons. There are besides a free church, near the South Infirmary, and a chapel-of-ease to St. Finbarr, at Black-rock. The old church of St. Brandon, which was situated on the N. side of the old road to Youghal, has been entirely removed, and the cemetery is now occupied by a beautiful house and grounds, the contents of the graveyard having previously been removed to another place. The Roman Catholic ecclesiastical divisions nearly correspond with the above, only the Roman Catholic see contains 33 parishes, of which three are included in the city. The first of these three parishes, comprising the greater part of the Protestant parishes of St. Mary and St. Anne, constitutes one cure, under the immediate charge of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, who performs the duties of parish priest, assisted by sir, curates and two chaplains. The cathedral, which also serves as the parochial chapel, is a plain structure externally, but the interior is richly decorated in the later English style, and contains an altarpiece similar to that of St. Alban's Abbey in Eng- land. Besides the cathedral, there are two parochial chapels, for the Roman Catholic parishes of SS. Peter and Paul and St. Finbarr, arid two chapels-of-ease at Clogheen and Brickfields. The chapel of SS. Peter and Paul has just been rebuilt on a magnificent scale, in the Gothic style of architecture, under the direction of Pugin the architect, and will be, when completed, one of the finest of modern Irish ecclesiastical structures. The chapel at Brickfields is one of the prettiest structures in the Grecian style to bo found in Ireland. The main entrance is by a lofty and elegant portico, of eight columns of gray marble, standing on a raised pediment, and approached by a flight of steps, extending along the entire front ; from the centre of the roof rises a cupola,