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. |