Watercolour and ink illustration of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newmarket
Illustration of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newmarket

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newmarket

Newmarket, Cork

Catholic

Diocese of Cloyne

Mass Times

Regular weekly timetable

Mon

  • 10:00

Tue

  • 10:00

Wed

  • 10:00

Thu

  • 10:00

Fri

  • 10:00

Sat

  • 19:30 Vigil

Sun

  • 11:30

Times can change on holy days of obligation and over Christmas and Easter; check with the parish before travelling.

About St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newmarket

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newmarket dates from 1840. It has a cruciform plan and pebbledashed walls under a pitched slate roof. Notable features include stained glass including a rose window, a bellcote and a marble altar.

The building

St Mary's Catholic Church occupies an elevated corner site and comprises a flat-roof porch extension, a pitched roof extension to the west, and a flat-roof sacristy extension to the east. The building displays pointed arch windows with Y-tracery, Tudor arch doorways with timber battened doors, and a plaque on the south elevation, while the interior contains timber galleries on square-plan columns and carved marble altar rails with ogee-headed detailing. Cut limestone boundary walls with wrought-iron railings enclose the site, which also includes a graveyard.

Architectural details in this description and profile from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, © Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Summarised by Christianity.ie.

Plan your visit

Confession

  • Friday at 10:30

Sources: Newmarket Parish Cork County, Our Parish – Newmarket Parish Cork County

Clergy

  • Parish Priest V. Rev. Francis Manning

Location & contact

Address

Main St, Demesne, Newmarket, Cork

Phone

029-22679