Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAFIELD ROAD (CLONTARF), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI)

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAFIELD ROAD (CLONTARF), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Proposed new Gothic church. Estimated cost £2,635.
Refs: Drawings dated 1860 in RCB Library; portfolio 13; PKS A03 (Aug 1860, p.34v), L1 (pp.29,113,606 &c); DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 300; B 18, 14 Jul 1860, 447

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAFIELD ROAD (CLONTARF), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI)
Date: 1860-61
Nature: Sundry works to be executed according to plans &c by the architects to Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Refs: IAA, PKS A03 (Aug 1860, pp.43v,48v); DB 3, 1 Sep 1861, 620

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAFIELD ROAD (CLONTARF), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI)
Date: 1864-1866
Nature: New church on site presented by John E.V. Vernon, 'prettily situated nearly opposite the entrance to Clontarf Castle'. Cruciform, with belfry and spire. . FS laid 9 Aug 1864. Consecrated 14 May 1866. Cost: £5,500. Accommodates 700 worshippers.  Contractors: Waldron Bros., Abbeyleix & Kilcullen.
Refs: Drawings, dated 1864, and scheme for dedication stone, 1870, in RCB Library, portfolio 13; IAA, PKS B02/33 and A03 (Apr 1864, p.112v); DB 6, 15 Aug 1864, 165; 8, 15 May 1866, 133; IB 39, 1 Nov 1897, 210;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, 8, no. 83, 19 May 1866, 114; exterior illus. in illus. in Claire Gogarty, From Village to Suburb: The Building of Clontarf since 1760 (2013), 102.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAFIELD ROAD (CLONTARF), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI)
Date: 1897-99
Nature: Addition of chancel and porch. Contractor: J.F. Lidwill. Cost about £1,500. Marble mosaic pavement in chancel by De Grelle & Houdret, London. Chancel dedicated by Archbishop of Dublin, 17? Mar 1899.
Refs: IB 39, 1 Nov 1897, 210; 41, 1 Mar 1899, 33;  Irish Times, 9 Mar 1899.