Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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

Name: BYRNE, PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLONTARF ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1835-1838
Nature: New church in Perpendicular style. FS laid 16 Jun 1835; opened 1838. Dedicated 29 Jun 1842; 'built after a design by P. Byrne and Son, on a site…presented by Mr Vernon...M. Carey, Esq., bequeathed £1000 towards its erection. It is a spacious and elegant structure, in the later style of English architecture, 152 feet in length and 63 feet 6 inches in breadth, and forms a striking ornament to the place.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 376; anonymous typescript leaflet on church in IAA, RP.D.71.10;  Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 87(illus.),91-94(illus.),165.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLONTARF ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1893
Nature: Addition of apse.
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLONTARF ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1910-11
Nature: 2 porches, 1 erected in memory of late Canon O'Neill, PP
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; IB 53, 9 Dec 1911, 805(illus.); undated design for holy water stoup in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.77/1

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLONTARF ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1915a
Nature: Mosaic work.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLONTARF ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1924
Nature: Plans for additions for Rev. J. Dempsey approved by City Architect, Oct 1924.
Refs: Irish Times, 23 Oct 1924.