Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1825-27
Nature: Handsome edifice on site of ancient monastery of White Friars. FS laid 25 Oct 1825. Consecrated 11 Nov 1827. Cost about £3,500. (In 1844, this church became S aisle of enlarged building.)
Refs: Dublin Penny Journal I, 27 Oct 1832, 137(illus.); 'Annals of Dublin' (unpaginated) in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanack (1847), entry for 25 Oct 1825; APSD, P, 40;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 471.

Name: BOYLAN, PATRICK *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1842ca
Nature: Decoration (scagliola &c) of interior of new nave & north aisle
Refs: Anselm Corbett, Whitefriars St Church, a short guide (1964), 57; Catholic Directory (1844), 387.

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1858
Nature: N aisle in Italian Romanesque style resembling San Miniato, Florence. 6 bays built 1857, remaining 2 now to be added. Contractor: Robert Farrell.
Refs: B 16, 24 Apr 1858, 280

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1877;1881
Nature: Cloister on N side and Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, 1877. Contractor: Michael Meade & Son. Estimated cost £2,462. Also oak pulpit, 1881.
Refs: IAA, PKS B06a/51, B07/49, B08/03, A06 (Jul 1877); IB 19, 15 Jul 1877, 202, 205 (illus.); design for pulpit in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.51

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1880s;1900ca
Nature: Window showing Pius IX defining Immaculate Conception. Also, according to Casey,another window depicting 'a row of Carmelite saints' in N aisle, 1900ca.
Refs: Catholic Dublin: a guide (1932), ?Anselm Corbett, Whitefriars St Church, a short guide (1964), ?;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 472.

Name: POWELL, CHARLES B.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1914
Nature: Works at same. Contractor: P. Shortall, Upper Temple St.
Refs: IB 56, 20 Jun 1914, 392

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1929
Nature: Plans for addition approved by City Architect, Aug 1929.
Refs: Irish Times, 22 Aug 1929.

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1931
Nature: Stained glass (4 scenes from the life of the Virgin).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 472.

Name: MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1950ca
Nature: Stained glass in chancel (Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Christ Child Enthroned).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), 472;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 472.

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1951
Nature: Reversal of orientation; new high altar baldacchino, five new chapels in N. aisle.
Refs: A. Corbett, Whitefriars Street Church Guide (B of I);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 472.

Name: ROBINSON, KEEFE & DEVANE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: 1953-55
Nature: Alts. Lady chapel, sacristy, boiler house, oil storage tank.
Refs: IB 95, 15 Aug 1953, 855; 96, 24 Apr,17 Jul 1954, 417,703; 97, 2 Jul 1955, 691

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITEFRIAR STREET, CARMELITE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Mosaic floors and step, Shrine of our Lady of Dublin attr. to Oppenheimer - and figures on shrine more specifically to Eric Newton - by Robert Field.
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013