Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)

Name: LEESON, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1831
Nature: First church, for Fr. Matthias Kelly, designed by JL; site moved 1832 when church was half built and James Bolger employed instead.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, ? Feb 1832 (E.McP); E. McParland, 'The Papers of Bryan Bolger, Measurer', Dublin Historical Record 25 (Sep 1972), 128;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 451.

Name: BOLGER, JAMES [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1832-1834
Nature: FS laid 30 Apr 1832; opened for worship 29 Jan 1834. For Rev. Dr. Blake.
Refs: Jones ref. given only as 'Vol 153'; Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin almanac (1847), 'Annals of Dublin' (1834, Jan 29); APSD,2,D,75 (Dublin entry);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 451-453.

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1837
Nature: Statue of St Andrew over pediment.
Refs: Catholic Directory (1838), ?;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 452.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1841-43ca
Nature: Monument (marble relief) to Jeanette Mary Farrell (d.1838), carved in Rome.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 131; illus. in Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880, (UAHS, 1975), Fig. 36;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 65(illus.),66.


Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1843
Nature: Statue (?of St Andrew) by 'Farrell'.
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1851
Nature: Marble statue of Transfiguration. Probably a studio replica.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 174

Name: BYRNE, PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1860
Nature: Repairs, alterations to ceilings & doors; tabernacle
Refs: William Mayler, Addres to the Catholic Inhabitants of St Andrew's, Dublin (1859); DB 2, 1 Jan 1860, 185

Name: HOGAN, JOHN VALENTINE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1864p
Nature: Monument to Dean Walter Meyler on E wall with portrait bust.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1879
Nature: Benches.
Refs: Drawing in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.83/1

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1882
Nature: Canon Doyle monument, erected by public subscription. By Thomas Farrell.
Refs: IB 24, 1 Oct 1882, 280;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),453.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1908-10
Nature: Mortuary chapel, stairs, external arch & gates, 8 confessionals, porches, deepening of gallery &c. (see account in Freeman's Journal).
Refs: Drawings, 1908, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 50, 18 Apr,16 May,12 Dec 1908, 246,309,773; 52, 10 Dec 1910, 752; B 96, 29 May 1909, 652;  Freeman's Journal, 1 Dec 1910.

Name: PEARSE, JAMES, & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1910
Nature: Statue of Mater Dolorosa in mortuary chapel by William Pearse.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 1 Dec 1910; Catholic Dublin: a guide (1932); Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 389

Name: SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1910a
Nature: Redecoration of interior, with William Nairne, Denzille St, executed by Clarke, N Frederick St, with gilding by Egan, Lr Ormond Quay.  Heads of apostles in transept panels by Francis O'Donohoe. 16 saints on nave wall by Miss O'Farrell, Bray. 'The most artistic ornamental work behind the altars...carried out in fibrous plaster by Mr Ryan'.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 1 Dec 1910;   IB 52, 10 Dec 1910, 752

Name: ROBINSON & KEEFE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1940
Nature: Important renovations. Contractor: Murphy Bros.
Refs: IB 82, ;8 Jun 1940, 386(illus.)

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Plans by CG for same.
Refs: MS list of plans in stable of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3))

Name: BOYLE, RICHARD BARRINGTON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 74-75