Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: LEONARD, JOHN *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1779ca
Nature: JL worked on Aldborough vault beside church at some point between 1777 and 1781 for 2nd Earl of Aldborough.
Refs: Verner-Wingfield Papers, PRONI, D.2538/E/14.

Name: SMYTH, RICHARD O'BRIEN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1882-1884
Nature: New church 'of early thirtheenth-century character' with bell-tower. R.O'B's design selected in competition. FS laid 5 or 6 Jun 1883 by Mrs Grogan. Consecrated, 14 Aug 1884. Contractor: T. & J. Pemberton (£1,820) Also designed organ in chancel.
Refs: RHA 1883, nos. 562,563; 1885, no. 545; IB 24, 1,15 Jun 1882, 162-3,169(illus.),183; 25, 15 Jun 1883, 183; 26, 15 Aug 1884, 239; 27, 1 Aug 1885, 216(illus.);  Irish Times, 7 Jun 1883;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 210;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 349.


Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: Unselected competition design for new church by JRC (church built 1884 to designs of Richard O'Brien Smyth).
Refs: Undated drawings in RCB Library.