Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)
Date: 1889-91
Nature: New church in Early English style on site of earlier church. FS laid 1889. Dedicated 15 Mar 1891. Design for 2 side altars, 1891, executed. by Edmund Sharp, Dublin. (same as that for church at Cahir, Co. Tip). for Dean Matthew Finn. Estimated cost, £4,000.
Refs: Designs formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Architect 41, 18 Jan 1889, suppl. p.3; B 60, 21 Mar 1891, 236; Edmund Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 18;  Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 95(illus.).

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)
Date: 1937
Nature: New approach drive.
Refs: Design, 1937, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT *
Building: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)
Date: 1940
Nature: 2 stained glass windows (Our Lady of Lourdes, Christ the King).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), 68;  illus. in Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 85(illus.).

Name: LEONARD, SIMON ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)
Date: 1950;1954
Nature: New sanctuary window, 1950; alterations to high altar, 1954; also undated design for entrance porch. For Canon Stenson.
Refs: Designs formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son;

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. MAYO, SWINFORD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (RC)
Date: 1953
Nature: Stations of the cross, 1953; stained glass in sanctuary window (Assumption, St John Evangelist, St Patrick), 1950, rose window (Holy Trinity) and another window (scenes from Old & New Testaments).
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244;  Ruth Sheehy, 'The art of Richard King (1907-1974) in Swinford and Newport, Co. Mayo', Cathair na Mart: Journal of the Westport Historical Society No. 27 (2009), 30-47(illus.).