Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1867ca-70
Nature: Chapel, begun about 1867 and solemnly blessed on 7 Aug 1870. Early Gothic. For Domincan Fathers.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Aug 1870;  IB 12, 15 Aug 1870, 200; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977),

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1870
Nature: Two stained glass windows, one representing Ascension, gift of Miss Donohoe, Gormanstown House, Naas.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Aug 1870,

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1900
Nature: FS of new wing recently laid.
Refs: IB 42, 1 Aug 1900, 437

Name: CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1923-26
Nature: Refectory block.  Tenders invited, Sep 1923. Builder:Thomas Mackey. £20,000. Opened 22 Jun 1926.
Refs: IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142;  Irish Times, 20 Sep 1923;  IB 65, 22 Sep,20 Oct 1923, 738,812; photocopies of perspective view and of photographs of exterior in IAA, Jones File C167(ii); Irish Catholic Directory (1927), 595

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1942-44
Nature: Re-ordering of chapel sanctuary; proposed additions.
Refs: Designs, dated 1942-44, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142

Name: LEONARD, SIMON ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. KILDARE, NEWBRIDGE, DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF ST THOMAS
Date: 1952
Nature: Dormitory block
Refs: Drawings, 1952, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 96, 18 Dec 1954, 1258