Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)

Name: O'NEILL & BYRNE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)
Date: 1879-1892
Nature: New church. £8,000. FS laid on 25 Apr 1880. Contractor: O'Toole. Work ceased 1892.
Refs: Drawings, 1879-80, in W.H. Byrne & Son collection; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; B 37, 27 Sep,25 Oct 1879, 1090,1181; 39, 2 Oct 1880, 429; IB 21, 1 Oct 1879, 311; 22, 15 Oct 1880, 284; Architect 23, ? ? 1880., ?; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 42,182-185;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),131.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)
Date: 1906-8
Nature: Survey of unfinished O'Neill & Byrne church, & designs for completion; contract for gallery, 1908 (Contractor: James Kiernan, Talbot St).  Church blessed, 25 Oct 1908.  Pulpit, 1913.
Refs: Drawings, 1906, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; IB 48, 7 Apr,30 Jun,22 Sep 1906, 282,505,526,781; 50, 5 Sep,31 Oct 1908, 537,671; 51, 25 Dec 1909, 804,812 (illus.);  Freeman's Journal, 26 Oct 1908;  Building News 98, 7 Jan 1910, 11.

Name: PEARSE, JAMES, & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)
Date: 1907;1908
Nature: William Malone and Pearse & Sons sign agreements to carry out high altar design (by W.H.Byrne?), 1907, altar rails and side altar, 1908.
Refs: IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142

Name: MALONE, WILLIAM *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)
Date: 1907;1908
Nature: William Malone and Pearse & Sons sign agreements to carry out high altar design (by W.H.Byrne?), 1907, altar rails and side altar, 1908.
Refs: IIAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET NORTH, CHURCH OF ST AGATHA (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic sanctuary floor.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).