Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1828
Nature: New chapel of ease. Consecrated 1 Jun 1828
Refs: Dublin Penny Journal 2, 7 Sep 1833, 85(illus.); M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146,148(illus.); Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (2001), 158.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1853
Nature: Proposed enlargement comprising addition of transepts & chancel.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), approved by Board 1853, in RCB Library, portfolio 13

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1870
Nature: Proposed enlargement.
Refs: Drawings in RCB Library

Name: JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1886-87
Nature: Almost entirely rebuilt: new N & S aisles, new roof, heating &c; pulpit and reading stand by C.W. Harrison. Contractor: J.P. Pile, Great Brunswick Street. Church reopened, 6 Apr 1887;  intended vestry on S side of chancel not yet built for want of funds. (Subject of lawsuit, Jones v. Dobson, Jul 1887.)
Refs: Elevations, plans, details of pulpit & reading desk in Alfred Gresham Jones album, NLI, see Maoiliosa Reynolds, 'The Work of Alfred Gresham Jones', MUBC thesis, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1996, 123-133(illus.), 271,277(illus.);  Irish Times, 7 Apr, 20 Jul 1887;   IB 29, 15 Apr 1887, 116;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 294.

Name: BATCHELOR & HICKS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Renovation & plastering of interior
Refs: IB 53, 30 Sep 1911, 662

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1921
Nature: 3 carved stone tablets commemorating 60 parishioners who died on war service ded. by Bishop of Derry, 12 Jul 1921. Executed by Sharp & Emery.
Refs: IB 63, 18 Jul 1921, 421.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1924
Nature: St Christopher window in N transept.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 53;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2965/ (last visted, Sep 2015).