Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)

Name: MURRAY, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: Gothic. For Very Rev. Dean Kieran, PP, VG. Site obtained Feb 1859. Cost: £4,000. Contractor: Hammond, Sheephouse, Drogheda.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Apr 1859, 43; 5, 1 Aug 1863, 131; B 13, 8 Sep 1860, 574; J. D'Alton & J.R. O'Flanagan, History of Dundalk (1864), ?' Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 266; P.J. Geraghty, A Heritage in Stone: the life and career of architect John Murray (1994), 17-21(illus.)

Name: CASEY, JOHN *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)
Date: 1863
Nature: New window by Mssrs. Casey
Refs: DB 5, 1 May 1863, 75

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)
Date: 1904-1906
Nature: Completion of tower, addition of transepts & porch. For Rev. M. Quinn. Tenders invited, Mar 1904.
Refs: Drawings in IAA,  W.H. Byrne Collection, 2006/142; B 86, 5 Mar 1904, 269 (advt. for tenders);  Irish Times, 29,31 Mar 1904;  IB 46, 9,23 Apr 1904, 222,254

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work in side chapels (and sanctuary?).
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, BRIDGE STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (RC)
Date: 1937-9
Nature: Transept, new sacristies, mortuary chapel, new high altar
Refs: Designs, dated 1939, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 (2 of these repr. in P.J. Geraghty, A Heritage in Stone: the life and career of architect John Murray (1994), 19); IB 80, 1 Oct 1938, 819