Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)

Name: NEVILL, ARTHUR JONES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1745
Nature: Chapter to apply to same for plan for rebuilding part of cathedral.
Refs: Christ Church Chapter Acts VI, 27 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1754
Nature: Monument to Thomas Prior in SW porch, , 'almost finished' in Feb 1754. For Dublin Society. (Epitaph by George Berkeley)
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 23-26 Feb 1754; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 86;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1754
Nature: Old S entrance 'thrown down and a grand one is rebuilding in a uniform handsome manner'.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 17-20 Aug 1754

Name: ENSOR, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1761
Nature: GE appointed surveyor of works.
Refs: Christ Church Chapter Acts VI, 151 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1767p
Nature: Monument to Lord Chancellor John Bowes (d.1767) in S transept of crypt.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 486; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 86;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),336.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1822p
Nature: Monument to Sir Samuel Auchmuty (d. 1822)
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 588; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.



Name: PRICE, MATTHEW [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1830-33
Nature: Restoration, including remodelling of transepts and choir with introduction of Perpendicular features. 'Those hideous arrangements had been perpetrated by the Restoration (!) of 1831, and consisted chiefly in a series of closets or pantries, a queer sort of roofing or panelling for the choir, "the substitution of a sort of beds for stalls," singular pranks with the windows and transepts , and the demolition of St. Mary's Chapel' (Freeman's Journal)
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 20 Apr 1878;  Kenneth Milne, ed., Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: A History (2000), 107, 355-6,366;  Roger Stalley, ed., George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 2000), 14;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 320.

Name: MCANASPIE, P. & T. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1830s
Nature: Green scagliola altar.
Refs: Information from Stuart Kinsella, research advisor, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1832a
Nature: Monument to Thomas Abbott, LLD.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 588; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 53(illus., fig. 54);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1835
Nature: Monument to Nathaniel Sneyd.
Refs: Figure of Sneyd exh. RHA 1835, no. 308, model exh. 1828, no. 207; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 591; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 54(illus., Fig.55).

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1843
Nature: Monument to Sir John Stevenson, unfinished.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 591; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56

Name: CHEERE, HENRY *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1843ca
Nature: Monument to 19th Earl of Kildare
Refs: Drawing by or after HC in V & A, 8933(26) H 13; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 40;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 336.

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1843p
Nature: Monument to John Crawford Smith (d.1843) in crypt with high relief figues of Crawford and his horse by 'T. Farrell'.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 336.


Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1847
Nature: Monument to Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare (d. 1846) in form of recumbent effigy.
Refs: Sketch model of monument 'now erecting' exh. RHA 1847, no. 471;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 161, Fig.220;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.

Name: EARP, THOMAS *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s
Nature: Pulpit carved by TE to designs by G.E. Street.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 334.


Name: TAYLERSON, JOHN EDWARD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s
Nature: Carving of capitals of paired shafts in choir apse to represent the Annunciation, the Salutation, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Circumcision and the Presentation in the Temple.
Refs: William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 13

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s
Nature: Windows in choir, transepts and baptistery executed by C & B.
Refs: William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 28

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s
Nature: Stained glass windows in nave, aisles and passage to Synod Hall executed by John Powell of Hardman & Co.
Refs: William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 28;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/location/results (last visited Jul 2009); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 335.
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Name: BELL, JAMES [3]*#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s
Nature: 36 nave clerestorey windows containg arms of the sees of Ireland.
Refs: William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 28

Name: LEAVER, JAMES *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1870s?
Nature: Executed baptistery gates to designs by G.E.Street.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 334.

Name: STREET, GEORGE EDMUND #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1871-1878
Nature: Restoration, funded by Henry Roe, distiller, commenced Spring 1871. Choir shut for restoration in summer of 1872. S aisle wall complete and S arcade in progress, W front advanced, E end removed apart from 2 bays of apse, to be retained, by Apr 1873. Builder: Gilbert Cockburn & Son, Dublin. Clerk of Works: Doolin. Re-opened 1 May 1878. Henry Roe to pay for pulling down some adjacent buildings, for istallation of electric lightting and for Bishop's Throne, designed by GES and costing about £500, Dec 1878. Tiling by Craven, Dunhill & Co., under direction of GES.




Refs: RA 1871, No. 944; Building Trades Directory (1868), 138;  Irish Times, 29 Mar 1871,20 Jan 1882;  IB 13, 1,15 Apr,1 Aug,1 Sep,15 Nov 1871, 88,104,194(illus.),224,299; 14, 1,15 Apr,15 Oct 1872, 91,119(illus.),276; 15, 15 Apr,15 Sep 1873, 106,246; 30, 1 Oct 1888, 245(illus.); 73, 6 Jun 1931, 504d;  B 27, 16 Jan 1869, 52; 29, 1 Apr,17 Jun 1871, 253,457; 30, 6 Apr 1872, 269; 36, 4 May 1878, 464; 44, 27 Jan 1883, 99,117,227; 29, 17 Jun 1891, 457;   Architect 1, 16 Jan,20 Mar 1869, 31(illus.),78(illus.),154(illus.);5, 20 May 1871, 256; 8, 13 Jul 1872, 28;12, 3 Oct 1874, 174(illus.);  Freeman's Journal, 2 May 1878;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 237, 1 Dec 1878, 357;  William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), passim; R.B. McVittie, Details of the restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 1878);  Roger Stalley, ed., George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral (Dublin, 2000);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),317-337.

Name: RATTEE & KETT *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1871p;1881
Nature: Carved oak choir stalls (to designs by G.E. Street). Also carved diocesan throne, 1881 (name of designer not stated in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette).
Refs: William Butler, The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (1901), 11;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 69, 23 Apr 1881, 28.
 
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Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: Designs Lord Mayor's pew, donated to cathedral by Lord Mayor, George Moyers. Also oak table for chapter room, commissioned by Henry Roe. Floor tiles by Craven, Dunnill & Co.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 100, 26 Nov 1881, 835; no. 104, 24 Dec 1881, 909.; Irish Times, 24 Dec 1881, 5.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: Anonymous donor has given amount for alteration of the screen; ‘heavy looking alabaster, which too much
conceals the clergy and choir from the congregation’ to be replaced with ornamental grilles. TD submits plans. (Alabaster panels used for reredos of Seapatrick church.)
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette  25, no. 168, 24 Mar 1883, .242;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 334.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Laying out of precinct as public garden.
Refs: IB 28, 1 May 1886, 125

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1888
Nature: Memorial brass to Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, London, after 'suggestive sketch' by TD, drawn in detail by R.C. Orpen
Refs: IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 16(illus.); B 56, 5 Jan 1889, 11

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1890ca
Nature: 'a pretty gabled three-storey house of c. 1890 with extensive red sandstone dressings, very probably by Thomas Drew...'.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 337.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1891-92
Nature: Extension of choir school/chapter house to E. New board room table and concealed doorway leading into new extension.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 333.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1899
Nature: Memorial brass to Archbishop William Plunket, executed from sketch design by TD by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, London.
Refs: IB 41, 1 Jan 1899, 6

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Repairs. Contractor: S.H. Bolton & Sons, Rathmines.
Refs: IB 53, 24 Jan 1911, 429

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1917
Nature: RCO presents plans for Archibishop Peacocke memorial in stone, brass & enamel work to be placed in N aisle.
Refs: Irish Times, 10 Oct 1917;  IB 59, 27 Oct 1917, 547

Name: HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1946
Nature: Repairs to stonework.
Refs: IB 88, 18 May 1946, 294

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed decorative scheme for nave.
Refs: Drawing from Sibthorpe collection in Irish Architectural Archive, Acc. 2002/33

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Early restoration?
Refs: IB 71, 16 Mar 1929, 233