Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. MAYO, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1914-1919;1931-
Nature: New church in Irish Romanesque style,built with a donation of £10,000 from Martin Carey. Foundation stone laid by Archbishop of Tuam, 23 May 1915. Contr: John Sisk, Cork
Refs: Watercolour elevation of proposed confessional, watercolour perspective of exterior in IAA, Butler Collection, 85/107.1/16 and 85/107.2/2, see also Notebook 25 in same collection;   IB 56, 25 Apr,26 Sep 1914, 263,558; 57, 22 May,3 Jul 1915, 93,233,243,306(illus.); 59, 25 May 1917, 254; 73, 9 May 1931, 393; 75, 30 Dec 1933, 1130; B 107, 13 Nov 1914, 469; 112, 12 Jan 1917, 40; AJ 50, 3 Dec 1919, 685(illus.),690(illus.); 51, 11 Feb 1920, 181(illus.); 64, 18 Aug 1926, 208; 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729 [NB. AJ calls church Church of St Joseph]; RHA 1918, no. 322,328-330; RHA 1919, no. 340; Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 391 (illus.);  illus. in The Bell 4, no. 1 (April 1942), 31 (copy in IAA, RPC.96.5);  illus. in Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, ed. by Madeleine Lyons (Dublin:  Associated Editions, 2009), 19,32-33.

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. MAYO, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass window, 'Resurrection'.
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244;  Ruth Sheehy, 'The art of Richard King (1907-1974) in Swinford and Newport, Co. Mayo', Cathair na Mart: Journal of the Westport Historical Society No. 27 (2009), 30-47(illus.).