Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)
Date: 1892-1906
Nature: New church to replace church of 1841. WGD winner of competition (Assessor: Thomas Drew). For Very Rev. Dean Patrick White, PP. £40,000.  FS laid, 2 Oct 1892.  Dedicated, Aug 1896.  Builder: John Sisk, Cork. Consecrated 14 Oct 1906.
Refs: IB 35, 15 Apr,15 May 1893, 87,122; 36, 1,15 Aug,15 Dec 1894, 180,190,279,283(illus.); 37, 1 Feb,1 Jul 1895, 33(illus.),41,161,165(illus.); 44, 24 Apr 1902, 1114,1126(illus.); 48, 20 Oct 1906, 850; Jubilee Number (1909), 64; 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729; B 64, ? Apr 1893, 287; 71, 29 Aug,12 Dec 1896, 178,492(illus.); 82, 22 Mar 1902, 296; 91, 24 Nov 1906, 608; designs exh. at RHA 1894, nos. 346,448, 1897, no. 502, 1901, no. 300; Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, 57-69, Figs. 5:1-7;  illus. in illus. in Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, ed. by Madeleine Lyons (Dublin:  Associated Editions, 2009), 10.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)
Date: 1894
Nature: GCA exhibits competition design at RHA
Refs: RHA 1894, nos. 438,449

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)
Date: 1910-1911
Nature: Internal changes. Mosaic decoration of apse and chancel.
Refs: Designs in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.133/1-2; skeches in Coleman sketchbook B63 in possession of Jones & Kelly, architects (photocopy in IAA, RPB 30);  Freeman's Journal, 10 Jan 1911;  IB 53, 21 Jan 1911, 51; IA & C 1, 28 Jan 1911, 3; Irish Catholic Directory (1927), illus. facing p. 49

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)
Date: 1910ca
Nature: Mosaic decoration in chancel (and later work in side chapels?)
Refs: Design in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman Collection, 76/1.133/2;  Oppenheimer brochures, 1915ca, and Mosaics for Church Decoration (1920s), 5(illus.) (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013);  Irish Catholic Directory (1927), illus. facing p. 49.

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, ST FLANNAN STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY OF THE ROSARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Carrara marble high altar replcating one at Coatbridge, Scotland ('The Last Supper', 'Nativity', 'Ascension'), side altar('Our Lady of Good Counsel'), altar rails, font, all designed and executed by ES, for Very Rev. Dean White, PP.
Refs: E. Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 32