Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: 1852ca-1859
Nature: Addition of tower and spire to church of 1827, for Rev. Gerald Doyle.
Refs: B 12, 7 Jan 1854, 6; DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 29; 3, 1 Aug 1861, 591; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 46;  John McEvoy, ed., The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2000), 112(illus.).

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: 1897
Nature: Proposed works at same?
Refs: Survey sketches by R.M. Butler, July 1897, in IAA Butler Collection, Acc. 85/107, Notebook 11.

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work (apparently removed in reordering).
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: ROBINSON, KEEFE & DEVANE
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: 1955
Nature: Mortuary chapel.
Refs: Richard Hurley & Wilfred Cantwell, Contemporary Irish Church Architecture (Dublin, 1985), 40-41(illus.) (information from Shane O'Toole, Sep 2012).

Name: CAMPBELL, LAURENCE T. *
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: 1955
Nature: Figure of Christ in mortuary chapel carved by LC.
Refs: Richard Hurley & Wilfred Cantwell, Contemporary Irish Church Architecture (Dublin, 1985), 40-41(illus.) (information from Shane O'Toole, Sep 2012).

Name: O'CALLAGHAN, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. KILDARE, NAAS, SALLINS ROAD, CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST DAVID (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Obituary of J.J.O'C lists Naas church among 'the great ecclesiastical buildings in the construction of which he worked'. (is this a confusion with J.J. McCarthy?)
Refs: Obituary of J.J.O'C in IB 47, 16 Dec 1905, 918