Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)
Date: 1930-1936
Nature: New church, 220 x 45 ft.. FS laid Jul 1932. Estimated cost £100,000.
Refs: Designs, dated 1930-36, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son (also earlier Decorated Gothic design, 1923, for 'Church of St Peter'); IB 72, ? ? 1930, 572; 74, 16 Jul 1932, 642; 76, ? ? 1934, 704,834; 78, ? ? 1936, 574 (illus.); 79, ? ? 1937, 239 (illus.); Capuchin Annual 12 (1941), 447; 1944, 167; Architect & Building News 138, 27 Jun 1930, 866

Name: ALINARI, FRATELLI *#
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)
Date: 1936
Nature: Mosaic retable in S. Joseph chapel
Refs: Drawings, 1936, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: RK designer of 8 of principal stained glass windows.
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 243