Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: BROWNE, THOMAS *##
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1659-1660;1679-
Nature: New gable end; brickwork in churchyard; repairs & gates
Refs: Loeber, 30.

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1760-1769
Nature: New church. Cost over £7,000. FS laid 1760; opened for worship 1769.
Refs: Robert Pool & John Cash, Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin (1780), 93(illus.);  James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  APSD, S, 93; H.A. Wheeler & M.J. Craig, The Dublin City Churches (1948), 16; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 179; E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 202(illus.),203; but see F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 37 (1996-97), 10-11, who suggests that Smyth was executant architect of design by Joseph Jarratt, whereas Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 623-4. suggests that S was assisted by Joseph Jarratt;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 289.

Name: JARRATT, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1761
Nature: JJ perhaps involved in building of church but contribution uncertain. Was paid £17 for plans for same, but John Smyth was paid £20 for  for plans and moulds and £40 for supervision
Refs: 'Smyth' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JHCI 7, appendix lvi (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 11; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 623-4.

Name: MYLNE, ROBERT #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1790p
Nature: Memorial tablet to his brother William Mylne.
Refs: Papers concerning Mylne family memorials in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Archive MyFam\25\24-50, see Britsh Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk (last visted Jun 2009);   illus. in  Ted Ruddock, Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 described in the letters of William Mylne (University of Georgia Press, 1993), pl. facing p. 86;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 727.

Name: MCCURDY & MITCHELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: Adds.
Refs: Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin V, Roll 7

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, THOMAS STREET, ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1885
Nature: Reordering of interior, including removal of box-pews and two E bays of gallery, relocation of pulpit to N side of chancel arch, &c. Contractor: James Walter Beckett.
Refs: IB 28, 1 Oct 1886, 272;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 624.