Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)

Name: ROTHERY, JOHN
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1722
Nature: Monument to John Bury (d. 1722) of Shannon Grove, signed 'Rothery fecit'.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (1975), 75

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1826-27
Nature: Dunraven mausoleum. Designed by JP, 1826. Built 1826-7 for 2nd Earl of Dunraven in memory of his father..
Refs: B.H. Blacker, 'Sketches of Irish Churches - VIII' in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 14, no. 156, 23 May 1872David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 206-207(illus.).

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1850s
Nature: 4 stained-glass windows.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location.2500/results (last visited Jul 2009).

Name: HARDWICK, PHILIP CHARLES #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1854
Nature: Restoration. Dowager Contess of Dunraven contributes £500.
Refs: B 11, 30 Jul 1853, 484; 12, 6 May 1854, 237;  B.H. Blacker, 'Sketches of Irish Churches - VIII' in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette14, no. 156, 23 May 1872.

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1860
Nature: Being enlarged by Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Sep 1860, 330

Name: HARDWICK, PHILIP CHARLES #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: 1868
Nature: New porch, 1868 (memorial to Rev. Henry Hampden Jones).
Refs: Design for porch signed PCH, August 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 22; John Cornforth, 'Adare Manor, Co. Limerick - III', Country Life 145, 29 May 1969, 1369(illus.)

Name: PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, ADARE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI; FORMER AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY)
Date: ?
Nature: Stanton says AWNP 'added a new roof and stained glass windowsto the village church, which he probably also totally restored' but O'Donnell says this work was for RC church (former Trinitarian Abbey).
Refs: Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 206; R. O'Donnell, 'The Pugins in Ireland' in P.Atterbury, ed., A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival (Yale, 1995), 147-8