Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ZION ROAD (RATHGAR), ZION CHURCH (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ZION ROAD (RATHGAR), ZION CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: New cruciform Gothic church and school. Designed by Joseph Welland & Son. Church opened for worship 1 Nov 1861, tho' already 'completed for some time'. Consecrated, 21 Nov 1862. Funds of 'some £10,000' for erection provided by John Gold, stockbroker, of Cullenswood Lodge, Dublin. Builder: Cockburn & Son. Limestone with Portland stone dressings; Caen stone used for internal arches & columns. Work supervised by Mr McAllister. Endowment of £110 p.a. for minister.
Refs: Unsigned, undated plans and elevations in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH) also? in portfolio 15;   B 11, 30 Apr 1853, 279; 17, 2,16 Jul 1859, 444,475;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, No. 3 (Jun 1856), 54; 4, NO. 42 (15 Dec 1862), 643;   Irish Times, 6 Jul 1859;  DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 2 Nov 1861, 104; 3, 1 Nov 1861, 671; 4, 15 Feb,1 Jul 1862, 43,166(illus.); IB 36, 15 Oct 1894, 235(illus.);  B.H. Blacker, 'Sketches of Irish Churches' in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 14, no. 159, 21 Aug 1872, 174;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 298.

Name: BATCHELOR, FREDERICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ZION ROAD (RATHGAR), ZION CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1898
Nature: Proposed new reader's prayer desk and base; proposed sexton's house.
Refs: Drawings in RCB Library.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ZION ROAD (RATHGAR), ZION CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1914;1932
Nature: 2-light window ('Of such is the kingdom of heaven'); St Luke window of 1914 attr. to AEC
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 53

Name: COOKE, WILLIAM HENRY HOWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ZION ROAD (RATHGAR), ZION CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1928
Nature: Oak panelling of 'chaste Gothic design' and marble step for communion table designed by WHHC, hon. architect.  Dedicated, 4 Nov 1928.  Carving by John Milligan.
Refs: Irish Times, 3 Nov 1928.