Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE (NEAR), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, MORRISTOWNBILLER PARISH)

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE (NEAR), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, MORRISTOWNBILLER PARISH)
Date: 1828
Nature: New church; '…a small edifice, in the early English style, built in 1828, by a gift of £600 and a loan of £300 from the same Board [of First Fruits]; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioner have recently granted £287 for repairs.'(Lewis)
Refs: M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146,149(illus.); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 393; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 71, 98n.39;  exterior illus. on Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 322.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE (NEAR), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, MORRISTOWNBILLER PARISH)
Date: 1870
Nature: New chancel. Builders: J. & W. Beckett.
Refs: Contract drawing(s), signed and dated 1870, in RCB Library, portfolio 19; IB 12, 15 May 1870, 114