Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Date: 1925-26
Nature: New small, one-storey school in local granite; 'the whole design has that sturdy Classic simplicity characteristic of Irish building since the the eighteenth century'..For Very Rev. Canon John Waters, PP. Tenders invited, Mar 1925.  Opened Apr 1926. Cost: £8,200. Contractor: Macken Bros.
Refs: Irish Times, 26,27 Mar 1925;  IB 67, 4 Apr 1925, 274; 68, 17 Apr 1926, 310; Architect & Building News 127, 28 Aug 1931, 246(illus.).