Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Entrant in limited competition, for Shannon Trustees. Thomas Drew's design selected
Refs: IB 29, 1 Sep 1887, 252;

Name: MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Placed 2nd in competition.
Refs: IB 29, 1 Sep,15 Nov 1887, 252,325(illus.); 30, 1 Aug 1888, 195; designs exh. RHA 1888, nos. 482,483

Name: JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Entrant in limited competition, for Shannon Trustees. Thomas Drew's design selected
Refs: Plan & elevation in Alfred Gresham Jones album, NLI 2006 TX; IB 29, 1 Sep 1887, 252; see Maoiliosa Reynolds, 'The Work of Alfred Gresham Jones', MUBC thesis, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1996, 134-145,278(illus). NB Reynolds wrongly concludes that the church was built to Jones's design

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Entrant in limited competition, for Shannon Trustees. Thomas Drew's design selected
Refs: RHA 1888, no. 474; IB 28, 1 Dec 1886, 323; 29, 1 Sep 1887, 252; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 148

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, CHURCH OF ST KEVIN (CI)
Date: 1886;1888-89
Nature: TD wins limited competition, 1886. For Trustees of Jane Shannon (who also endowed St Paul's, Glenageary, and St Barnabas, North Lotts). FS laid 16 Feb 1888. Rapidly approaching completion, Nov 1888. Consecrated 8 Apr 1889.  Contractors: Dixon & Co., Belfast.  Carving by Harrison, Great Brunswick Street.
Refs: Design of church 'now erecting' exh. RHA 1888, no. 456;  IB 28, 1 Dec 1886, 323; 29, 252; 29, 1 Sep 1887, 352; 30, 1 Aug 1888, 195(illus.);  Building News 51, 10 Dec 1886 (illus. showing alternative designs for spire and tower); B 53, 10 Sep 1887, 379;  Irish Times, 5 Nov 1888;  B.J. J. Cantrell, Memorials of the Dead: S. Dublin (Part)(1990), 70;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 626.