Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1912
Nature: Proposed Romanesque design for church with aisle, small transepts and short belltower with pyramidal roof.
Refs: Drawings, 1912, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: SCOTT, ANTHONY
Building: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1912-18
Nature: With W.A. Scott winner of limited competition for design of new parish church and convent. Romanesque. For Rev. Paul Murphy, PP.  FS laid early summer 1914 by Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin. Rapidly nearing completion in Mar 1918. Contractor: William Connolly, Upper Dominick St. (or J. Coffey, Midleton, Co. Cork?)
Refs: Building News 103, 20 Nov 1912, 759; IB 54, 23 Nov 1912, 657; 55, 10 May 1913, 320; 55, 5 Jul 1913, 429; 56, 6 Jun,10 Oct 1914, 341,578; 59, 31 Mar 1917, 149; 60, 30 Mar 1918, 161; Freeman's Journal, 19,22,26 May 1914;   Paul Larmour, '"The Drunken Man of Genius": William A. Scott (1871-1921)', Irish Architectural Review 3 (2001), 38

Name: SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS
Building: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1912-18
Nature: W.A.Scott and his father winners of limited competition for design of new parish church and convent. Romanesque Revival. First sod turned 1913. For Rev. Paul Murphy, PP. FS laid early summer 1914 by Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin. Rapidly nearing completion in Mar 1918. Opened Jun 1919. Consecrated: 1932.Contractor: William Connolly, Upper Dominick St. and, from 1918, Jeremiah Coffey, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Refs: Building News 103, 20 Nov 1912, 759; IB 54, 23 Nov 1912, 657; 55, 10 May 1913, 320; 55, 5 Jul 1913, 429; 56, 6 Jun,10 Oct 1914, 341,578; 59, 31 Mar 1917, 149; 60, 30 Mar 1918, 161;  Freeman's Journal, 19,22,26 May 1914;  Paul Larmour, '"The Drunken Man of Genius": William A. Scott (1871-1921)', Irish Architectural Review 3 (2001), 38;  John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 88-89(illus.).

Name: WILLIAMS, ARTHUR EDWARD
Building: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1921
Nature: New cut stone boundary wall and entrance gates for new RC church and convent. Contractor: J.J. Coffey, Midleton.
Refs: IB 63, 13 Aug 1921, 550

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. OFFALY, EDENDERRY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1929-1930
Nature: Interior furnishings (high altar, Sacred Hear altar, pulpit, shrines of SS Brigid & Anthony, communion rail, mosaics &c.)
Refs: Drawings, those for communion rail dated 1929, and those for St Brigid's altar Altar 1930, in IAA, IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.92