The Scots Church is a former

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

church in

Cobh Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of around 13,000 inhabitants, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's ...

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

, Ireland. It is today a museum, the Cobh Museum, which tells the history of the town.

Architecture

The building is in the "Hard"

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style, with three-

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

, single-bay

vestry A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquiall ...

to east and a three-stage, stepped tower with an octagonal limestone spire with consoles to the south elevation. It was designed by

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History

Church

The church was built in 1854. It closed in 1965, and was gifted to Cork County Library in 1973.

Museum

Cobh Museum opened in 1973. It tells the social and commercial history of Cove/Queenstown/Cobh, with a focus on maritime and military history. It contains artifacts from the RMS ''Lusitania''.

References

{{Museums and galleries in the Republic of Ireland by province Presbyterian churches in the Republic of Ireland 19th-century Presbyterian churches Former Presbyterian churches Churches completed in 1854 1854 establishments in Ireland 1973 establishments in Ireland Gothic Revival church buildings in the Republic of Ireland Museums established in 1973 20th-century churches in the Republic of Ireland 19th-century churches in the Republic of Ireland