Selected: CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC)
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
Date: | 1892-1895 |
Nature: | New Romanesque church, for Rev. James Lalor, PP. FS laid 1893. Dedicated 26 May 1895. Builder: Stephen Lalor, Kilkenny. Vases on high altar executed to WH's design by Kane & Gunning, silversmiths, Dublin. |
Refs: |
Undated romanesque designs in W.H. Byrne collection, No. 16 and Folder 99; Architect, ? ? 1892, ? (for ref see B of I Laois file); IB 37, 15 Jun 1895, 155; Irish Times, 30 Nov 1896; John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 68(illus.). |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
Date: | 1906;1913 |
Nature: | Tower & spire; baptistery. Church by William Hague. |
Refs: | Drawings, 1906,1913, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 47, 16 Dec 1905, 914; B 89, 16 Dec 1905, 658 (advt. for tenders) |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaic work. (Arch, walls and floor in sanctuary?) |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | KELLY, VINCENT |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
Date: | 1920 |
Nature: | Steeple. |
Refs: |
2 rolls of drawings, 1920, in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access). |
Name: | JONES & KELLY |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | New plaster ceiling to apse, carried out by M. Creedon. |
Refs: | IB 66, 17 May 1924, 456 |