Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1821
Nature: 'The church is a very neat structure, with a square tower and lofty spire, built in 1821 by aid of aloan of £2000 from the late Board [of ~First Fruits], and recently repaired by a grant of £144 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners:  it has an organ, whih was given by the Earl of Mayo.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 117;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 324.


Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: Proposed chancel (but design of W.M. Mitchell carried out? cf. IB 26, 1 Jan 1884, 14).
Refs: IB 23, 15 Mar 1881, 150(illus.)

Name: COX & SON *#
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: Stained glass window of the Ascension in new chancel designed by W.M. Mitchell.
Refs: IB 26, 1 Jan 1884, 14

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: New chancel with stained glass window of the Ascension by Cox & Co, London. Contractor: G.F. Tyrrell, Fitzgibbon St.
Refs: IB 26, 1 Jan 1884, 14

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1903
Nature: Work on roof?
Refs: Sketch showing detail of roof truss, signed and dated 18 Feb 1903, in RCB Library, portfolio 18

Name: REEVES, PERCY OSWALD *
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1920
Nature: Memorial plaque to Earl of Mayo.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe & Elizabeth Cumming, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Dublin and Edinburgh 1885-1925 (1998), 175