Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH)
Name: | SCHEEMAKERS, PETER *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | 1743 |
Nature: | Memorial to Dr Marmaduke Coghill, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. 1738). Arrived from London Apr 1743. |
Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 19-23 Apr 1743; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 77, Figs. 24,25 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | 1743 |
Nature: | New church erectedby Mary Coghill in memory of her brother Marmaduke Coghill. Consecrated, 12 Jul 1743. |
Refs: |
Robert Walsh, Fingal and its churches (1888), 224; Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 96. |
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | 1833 |
Nature: | Repairs & redecoration. For Dublin Corporation. |
Refs: | CARD XIX, 84; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | 1862-63 |
Nature: | Restoration, consisting of rebuilding of porch and robing room, erecting organ loft and gallery, new and enlarged E Window, new mats and cushions in 'Corporation Pew', new iron gates to churchyard, new vestry room, rebuilding W wall and belfry. Work, undertaken by Corporation, started Oct 1862 and finished May 1863. Plans not supplied to parties concerned. Some of works condemned by architect to Ecclesiastical Commissioners and had to be rebuilt. Cost over £400. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 4, no. 49 (15 Jul 1863), 828. |
Name: | CARROLL & BATCHELOR |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | Gallery re-opened, 24 Jun (or 1 Jul?) 1900 after enlargement. New gallery floor laid, and 'a beautiful and substantial staircase of pitch pine...erected'. Contractor: Farquharson, Jones's Rd. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 23 Jun 1900 |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DRUMCONDRA PARISH) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Monument to Vice Admiral Sir Josias Coghill. |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), |