Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: GALILEI, ALESSANDRO #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1718ca
Nature: Attribution of proposed elevation in V & A to AG has been suggested (building actually designed by Isaac Wills)
Refs: Victoria & Albert Museum, D89-1891.

Name: WILLS, ISAAC
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1719
Nature: IW 'concerned in most of the public Building for more than fifty years past, particularly those fine Fabrics, the Libraries of St Sepulchre's and the University, the Parish Churches of St Mary's, St Anne's, and St Werburg's, etc.'
Refs: Notice of death in Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 5 Jun 1753;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland:  Dublin (2005), 469.

Name: BURGH, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1720
Nature: Attributed to TB by McParland. Unexecuted facade copied from San Giacomo degli Incurabili, Rome, with tower copied from Sant' Agnese in Agone, Rome.
Refs: E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 45-46.

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1813p
Nature: Memorial tablet to Elizabeth Phibbs.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 81

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1828
Nature: Proposal for tower & spire.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1828, no. 206

Name: LANYON & LYNN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: Repairs, refitting, improvements. Memorial windows to Felicia Hemans and Alexander Knox. Pulpit of Caen stone with native marbles erected in memory of Dr Dickinson. Reopened 12 Aug 1860. Builder: Hall, Kevin St. Cost: £2,000.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 104; 2, 1 Mar,1 Jul,1 Sep 1860, 225,297,328 ); Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 2, no. 14 (15 Aug 1860), 380 (architect not named). (Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470, gives these improvements to Joseph Welland

Name: PURDY & OUTHWAITE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: 'the carvings and stone dressings connected with the chancel, together with the pulpit, font, and desk, were designed and executed at the establishment of Messrs. Purdy and Outhwaite, Great Brunswick-street, assisted in the former department…by a professional gentleman distinguished for his ability in ecclesiastical art'.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Mar,1 Jul,1 Sep 1860, 225,297,328

Name: BOYLE, RICHARD BARRINGTON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860ca?
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 74-75

Name: WARRINGTON, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860p
Nature: Stained glass windows: Women  of the Bible in apse ( in memory of Felicia Hemans, poet, d. 1860);  Seven Parables on N side of nave  (Knox family memorial, 1861).
Refs: Illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2957/ (last visited, Oct 2013);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.

Name: O'CONNOR, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1862
Nature: Windows: Cusack memorial, 1861, in apse; Tickell memorial, 1863, in N gallery; SS Peter & Paul,1863, Faith, Hope & Charity, 1865ca, Parables of Good shepherd, Lost Coin and Prodigal son, 1865ca and Moses and Judgment of Solomon,1865ca, all in S gallery.  By Mssrs O'Connor.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Oct 1862, 268;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2957/ (last visited, Jun 2013).
 

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1866
Nature: Memorial window to - Kemmis in uppser N wall of nave (Christ and the Pharisees).
Refs: DB VIII, ? ? 1866, 68;  Gloine,  http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2957/ (last visited, Sep 2015).

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1866-69
Nature: New Lombardo Romasque front; improvements, including apse. Builder: Cockburn. TND also designed new front to 18th c. vicarage, abutting S tower.
Refs: Drawings for adds. & new vicarage in RCB Library, portfolio 13; design for new front exh. RHA 1868, no. 387; IAA, PKS A03 (1867, p.31v); IB 8, 15 Jul 1866, 185; 9, 1 Sep 1867, 221; 10, 15 Aug,15 Oct 1868, 197,252(illus.); Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 380(illus.),381;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 469-470,471.

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1901;1915
Nature: Stained glass windows: Ascension (in apse, 1901); La Touche memorial (in N aisle, after 1914); Christ among the Doctors (in N aisle, 1915).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.

Name: BATCHELOR & HICKS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Alterations (replacement of roof)
Refs: IB 53, 5 Aug 1911, 529;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.

Name: GEDDES, WILHELMINA *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1913;1916;1918
Nature: 3 stained glass windows in S aisle: Charity (1913), St Christopher (1916), and Michael with angels and others (1918).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/13968/ (last visited, Sep 2015);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.

Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1915p
Nature: Stained glass window in memory of Roy Lancaster Bell (d.1915): 'He hath delivered my soul in Peace from the battle that was against me' (Described as 'A soldier led to Christ' by Bowe, Caron & Wynne.Design by ER. Executed by An Túr Gloine.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/13968/ (last visited Jul 2013).

Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1916
Nature: Stained glass window (St Christopher) by Wilhelmina Geddes with ER;  erected in memory of Sir Andrew Reed, KCB, and Lady Reed, by their son Brigadier-General Reed and their 3 daughters.
Refs: Building News 111, 26 Aug 1916, 189; Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 44;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/13967/ (last visited, Jul 2013).

Name: POWELL, JAMES & SONS *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1920
Nature: Outer mosaic panels in reredos by 'Powells of London'.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.

Name: BRADBURY & EVANS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1933
Nature: Roof repairs & additions
Refs: IB 75, 29 Jul 1933, 654

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Attr. to 'J. Smith' by Wright (but original church of 1719-20 too early for John Smyth [1]).
Refs: G.N. Wright, Historical Guide to Dublin (2nd ed., 1821), 253

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 'several memorials by Kirk...among them Rev. Cotton, Bishoip Dickinson, and Daniel McKay'.  Also 1st Baron Mount Sandford and Anne Alder.(Casey).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.