圣玛丽大厅，前身是基尔肯尼高街的圣玛丽教堂，成立于13世纪，是该市的教区教堂。自20世纪中叶以来一直作为教区和共济会会馆使用，在基尔肯尼县议会和环境、遗产和地方政府部的协助下，基尔肯尼区议会于2010年购买了该建筑。

St Mary’s Hall, formerly St Mary’s Church, High Street, Kilkenny was founded in the thirteenth century as the parish church of the City. In use as a Parish and Masonic Hall since the mid-20th century, it was purchased by Kilkenny Borough Council in 2010 with assistance from Kilkenny County Council and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

该建筑是一个13世纪的十字形石头结构，西端有一个后来的塔楼；它坐落在高街后面的一个巨大的围墙墓地里。墓地最近作为一个花园向公众开放；里面有许多从中世纪到20世纪的重要坟墓和纪念碑。

The building is a cruciform 13th century stone structure with a later tower at its Western end; it sits in a substantial walled graveyard to the rear of High Street. The graveyard has recently been opened as a garden to the public; it contains many important tombs and monuments from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

教堂在纪念碑和中殿过道上获得了深度和复杂性，这些元素后来被砍掉了，过道被移走了，教堂被拆除了–一个不断扩张和收缩的形状，已经经历了一个剧烈的变化周期。在发现的时候，内部被切割成独立的房间和楼层，成为一个教区大厅。

The church had acquired depth and complexity in monuments and nave aisles, elements which were later shorn off, the aisles removed, the chancel demolished- a shape expanding and contracting, already through a violent cycle of change. As found, the interior was cut up into separate rooms and levels to make a parish hall.

该项目的目的是将教堂恢复为博物馆，保留一些20世纪的干预措施，并尊重其中世纪的空间复杂性，按照原来的计划重新建造北过道和礼拜堂，但以非干预性的方式使用原来的墙基，形成不同的内部部分和材料。礼拜堂的房间可以俯瞰整个城市，重新确立了它在城市景观中的主导形式；它下面的空间变成了一个充满墓穴的地窖。两个新的屋檐构件都是用铅完成的，屋顶灯直接照射到下面的考古层。

The project intention was to restore the church as a museum, retaining some of the 20th century interventions, and to honour its medieval spatial complexity by re-constructing the North aisle and chancel to the original plan but a different internal section and materiality using the base of the original walls in an non-interventive way. The chancel room overlooks the town, re-establishing its dominant form in the urban landscape; the space beneath it becomes a tomb-filled undercroft. Both of the new gabled elements are finished in lead, with rooflights directed to levels of archaeology below.

Architects: Mccullough Mulvin Architects
Area: 700 m²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Christian Richters
Manufacturers: Flos, Keystone, Kilkenny Limestone, M&I Lead
Lead Architects: Niall McCullough, Ronan O’Connor
City：KILKENNY
Country：Ireland