Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Master stained-glass maker of Tours, France. Lucien-Léopold Lobin was born in 1837, a son of Julien-Léopold Lobin, painter and founder of a stained-glass atelier in Tours.  Following his father's death in 1864, he inherited the business, which he ran with great success until his own death in 1892.   The atelier was then taken over by his brother-in-law Joseph Prosper Florence but gradually declined and eventually shut down in 1905.   Stained-glass from the atelier dating from the last four decades of the nineteenth century survives in several Irish Catholic churches, a Church of Ireland church and a Unitarian church..

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References

All information about the Lobin atelier is from L'atelier Lobin de Tours, http://www.cc-parthenay.fr/Patrimoine/archeologie/Catherine/sitevitrail/lobin.htm , last visited Mar 2013.


11 work entries listed in chronological order for LOBIN, LUCIEN LEOPOLD *#


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HALSTON STREET, ST MICHAN'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1866
Nature: Stained glass window in S wall, SS Joseph and Francis.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 91.


Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 112 (UNITARIAN CHURCH)
Date: 1868
Nature: Stained glass windows in W wall and S wall (Palm Sunday, Suffer the Little Children and foliate ornament).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 176.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MOUNT MERRION, FOSTER AVENUE, CHURCH OF ST THOMAS (CI)
Date: 1875
Nature: 2-light E window (Christ blessing children).
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 22, no. 25, 19 Jun 1880, 476;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2924/ (last visited, Mar 2011)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MEATH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (RC)
Date: 1875
Nature: Stained glass windows in N wal (SS Vincent de Paul, Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal), 1875.                                                                                                                                                     
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 629.

Building: CO. SLIGO, RATHBARRON, CHURCH (CI, KILLORAN PARISH)
Date: 1876
Nature: Ornamental stained glass window.
Refs: gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3049/ (last visited, Sep 2015).

Building: CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, SCHOOL STREET, CHURCH OF SS. JOHN & BRIDGET (RC, FRANCISCAN)
Date: 1890
Nature: Stained-glass windows.
Refs: Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 139.

Building: CO. KILDARE, KILCOCK, CHURCH OF ST COCA (RC)
Date: 1892-1898
Nature: Stained glass window by Lobin atelier, Tours.
Refs: John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 122.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH (PHIBSBOROUGH), CHURCH OF ST PETER (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass for rose window in S transept (Adoration of the Lamb), N transept ((Glorification of the Virgin), ambulatory chapels (origins of Christianity)..
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 278.

Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE
Date: ?
Nature: Windows in E end of chapel signed by 'J. Lobin' of Tours.
Refs: -

Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, JAMES STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: 'All five [of the long lights behind high altar] were made in Tours, and are in most agreeable contrast, through difference of style, chasteness, and delicacy of color, to the rest of the stained glass in the edifice. Over the altar of St Joseph are representations, also from tours, of St Bridge, St Patrick and St Joseph.'
Refs: George Henry Bassett, Louth County Guide and Directory (1886), 95

Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, TEMPLE STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: 10 nave windows, some 'cathedral-tint' and some stained, 'made in the French town of Tours, second only to Munich...as a manufactory of glass'.
Refs: Tadhg Kilgannon Sligo and its surroundings (Sligo, 1926), ?.