Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST LAWRENCE ROAD & STRAND ROAD (CLONTARF), METHODIST CHURCH & SCHOOLS

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST LAWRENCE ROAD & STRAND ROAD (CLONTARF), METHODIST CHURCH & SCHOOLS
Date: 1906-07
Nature: New church to accommodate 500 and schools for 400 children. Gothic. Granite walls.  Contractor: Collen Bros., Portadown & Dublin. Dedicated 19 Jun 1907.
Refs: Drawings &c. in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin II, Roll 8; design exh. RHA 1907, no. 384; IB 48, 16 Jun,22 Sep 1906,486,770; 49, 18 May, 29 Jun 1907, 358,457; Jubilee No., 1909, 9(illus.);  Irish Times, 18 Jun 1907;  obituary of Mitchell by R.M. Butler in IB 52, 19 Mar 1910, 173;  exterior of church illus. in Claire Gogarty, From Village to Suburb: The Building of Clontarf since 1760 (2013), 103.