Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE)
Name: | JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1877-79 |
Nature: | New buildings at rere of Centenary Hall. Gothic with clock tower. Red brick with bands of blue and white brick. Frontage 185ft, depth 80ft. Plans of AGJ accepted by building committee, Mar 1877. Building commenced, Sep 1877. Opened 30 Jan 1879. Contractors: Mssrs Gahan & Son, Harcourt St.Cost about £14,000. |
Refs: | IB 19, 15 Mar 1877, 78; Irish Times, 24 Jan 1879; Maoiliosa Reynolds, 'The Work of Alfred Gresham Jones', MUBC thesis, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1996, 147-156 |
Name: | BECKETT, GEORGE FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | Proposed 2-storey addition with flat roof. |
Refs: | IB 55, 19 Jul 1913, 475 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Additions at rear of 99 St Stephen's Green for Governors of Wesley College. Plans approved by City Architect, Aug 1924. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 28 Aug 1924. |
Name: | BECKETT, GEORGE FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | War memorial chapel in grounds, opened and dedicated, 2 Apr 1927. Irish Romanesque. E window ('Faithful until death') by A.E. Child. Contractor:J.F. Keatinge & Sons. (Demolished in 1970s; window given to Methodist College, Belfast.) |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 4,21 Apr 1927 (illus.); Weekly Irish Times, 9 Apr 1927, has photograph of group of people including GFB on steps in front of chapel at opening ceremony. |
Name: | CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | E window in War Memorial Chapel representing knight in armour ('Faithful until Death;). (Window given to Methodist College, Belfast, when chapel was demolished in 1970s.) |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 4 Apr1927. |
Name: | MILLAR & SYMES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 094 (WESLEY COLLEGE) |
Date: | 1930 |
Nature: | Girls' dining room. Estimated cost of J. & R. Thompson's tender £1,464. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0093, A09 (Apr 1930) |