Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, FOXFORD, CONVENT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE (SISTERS OF CHARITY)

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. MAYO, FOXFORD, CONVENT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE (SISTERS OF CHARITY)
Date: 1907
Nature: Proposed L-plan convent with 3-storey Gothic façade.
Refs: Designs, dated 1907, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. MAYO, FOXFORD, CONVENT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE (SISTERS OF CHARITY)
Date: 1923-1925
Nature: New chapel. in late Irish Gothic style. FS laid by by Dr Morrisroe, Bishop of Achonry, Mar 1923.  Consecrated 27 Sep 1925 by Dr Morrisroe.
Refs: Irish Times, 22 Mar 1923;   IB 64, 22 Apr,18 Nov 1922, 282,792; 65, 7 Apr 1923, 254; 67, 17 Oct 1925, 858;  exterior illus. in Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 32-33.l

Name: REEVES, PERCY OSWALD *
Building: CO. MAYO, FOXFORD, CONVENT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE (SISTERS OF CHARITY)
Date: 1924
Nature: Tabernacle door panel fo convent chapel.
Refs: Paul Larmour, 'The works of Oswald Reeves (1870-1967)' , Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 1 (1998), 49

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. MAYO, FOXFORD, CONVENT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE (SISTERS OF CHARITY)
Date: 1924
Nature: Nativity window. 3 other windows also attr. to AEC
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 67