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. |