Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST MARY'S PLACE, ST MARY'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST MARY'S PLACE, ST MARY'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1805p
Nature: Monument to William Watson.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 389

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST MARY'S PLACE, ST MARY'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1830
Nature: New chapel of ease by John Semple & Son. Licensed for worship 18 Jan 1831. 'Whether these were the designs of John Semple Sen. (1763-1841) or Jun.(1801-1882) remains in question, though the Black Church seems more likely to be the brain-child of a thirty-year-old than a man of sixty seven.' (Casey)
Refs: M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146; Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (2001), 202;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 122-125.