Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DRUMCONDRA ROAD LOWER (& DARGLE ROAD), CHURCH OF ST AIDAN (CI)

Name:	ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DRUMCONDRA ROAD LOWER (& DARGLE ROAD), CHURCH OF ST AIDAN (CI)
Date:	1901-02;1908
Nature:	New chapel of ease for Clonliffe district of St George's parish.; 'although it is an unpretentious building externally, it is not lacking in points of architectural beauty, and better still it is admirabley adapted to serve its purpose' (Irish Times, 24 Nov 1902). FS laid by Archbishop of Dublin 12 Oct 1901. Dedicated, 22 Nov 1902. Contractor: Robert Farquharson, Jones's Rd. Cost: £2,400. Painting and decoration by Sibthorpe & Co. to specification of RCO, Aug-Sep 1908.. (Demolished, 1963; replaced iron church erected as chapel of ease by J. Dixon, Liverpool, for £350, licensed for services on 12 Oct 1881 and opened 25 Oct 1881.)
Refs:	Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 82, 23 Jul 1881, 509; no. 96, 29 Oct 1881, 756; IB 43, 18 Jul,10,24 Oct 1901, 799,888,905; Irish Times, 14 Oct 1901, 3 May,24 Nov1902, 27 Aug 1908; E. MacDowell Cosgrave & Leonard R. Strangways, Visitors’ Guide to Dublin and Neighbourhoods (Dublin & London, [1907]), 70; Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 184-5.