Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: Proposed new church (or alts)?
Refs: Plans and elevations, signed by J. Welland and J. Welland & Son, one ground plan inscr. 'Approved by the Bishop of Limerick and the churchwardens, 14 May 1859' and another stamped by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 11 Jan 1860, in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH)

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1868-1870
Nature: New cruciform church (replacing church of 1802) with 3-bay nave, semicircular apse to seat 350. Estimated cost £8,000. FS laid, 4 Aug (or 5 Jul?) 1868. Consecrated, Aug 1870. Burnt 1888 and restored by J.F. Fuller. Contractor: James Hunter, Bandon.
Refs: Drawings, signed and dated, 1865, 1868, in Representatiive Church Body Library, portfolio 2 , see RCB Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/190-194 (last visited, Feb 2016);  Irish Churchman 1, no. 7, 15 Aug 1868, 99;  IB 10, 1 Sep 1868, 220; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 247,249; illu. in Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 130-131;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 390, and J.B Leslie, ed. D.W.T. Crooks. Clergy of Limerick - Clergy of Ardfert and Agahadoe: biographical succession lists (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2015), 157;    J.A. Murphy, The Church of Ireland in Co. Kerry (2016), 127(illus.),128-130;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 390.
 

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: W window erected, Apr 1881. Gift of Countess of Bantry in memory of her brother, Henry Arthur Herbert, MP. Represents Melchisedic meeting Abraham, Israelites gathering manna, Feeding of Five Thousand and Supper at Emmaus with Last Supper in large rose.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 69, 280; no. 86, 20 Aug 1881, 573;   illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3122/ (last visited, Sep 2016).

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1888-93
Nature: Restoration and imps. after fire of 1888. Pitch-pine roof and benches, heating and organ chamber. Contractor: Francis Nunan, Killarney. Decorator: Robert Mannix.  Marble steps and marble mosaic pavement, 1893.
Refs: IB 30, 1,15 Nov 1888, 278,289; 31, 15 Jun 1889, 161; Architect 40, 28 Sep 1888, supplement p.1, 19 Oct 1888, supplement p.3;  Irish Times, 26 Dec 1893.