Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1827p |
Nature: | Memorial to Rev. F. Kenrick on E wall inscribed M Flanagan designavit T Farrell fecit. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633. |
Name: | LEESON, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1829-1834 |
Nature: | New church for Rev. Matthew Flanagan. JL 'mapped out the principal lines, the finishing touches were Dr Flanagan's' (Donnelly). Church dedicated 8 Nov 1841. |
Refs: |
Cork Examiner, 10 Nov 1841; N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes, II, 69-71; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st ed., 1952), 293; Rosalind M. Elmes, Catalogue of Irish topographical Prints and Original Drawings (revised ed., 1975), no. 680 TB; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 631-3,pL.60.. |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1831ca |
Nature: | Plaster Pietà by Hogan and plaster reliefs of Last Supper and Marriage of the Virgin to left & right of high altar by Hogan & John Smyth. |
Refs: |
Clonliffe College Archive, MS p.1/2; Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal 2, Oct 1839, 363-4; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 60(illus.),63(illus.),164-7; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 61-62(illus.). |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1831ca |
Nature: | Plaster reliefs of Last Supper and Marriage of the Virgin, left & right of high altar by John Hogan & John Smyth. |
Refs: |
John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 60(illus.),63(illus.),164-7; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p.1/2; N. Donnelly, Short Histories of Dublin ParishesII, 97; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632. |
Name: | POZZI, FRANCESCO *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | Large kneeling marble angels flanking high altar. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632. |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1857ca |
Nature: | Memorial (oval marble relief) to mother and brother of Rev. Matthew Flanagan. |
Refs: | John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 141-2 |
Name: | BOURKE, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1858 |
Nature: | JB supervises completion of Leeson's design |
Refs: | B 16, 2 Oct 1858, 666; 17, 12 Nov 1859, 750 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | Pulpit (executed by Earley & Powell) |
Refs: | IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 300 |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | New pulpit of Sicilian and Siena marbles erected to designs by W.H. Byrne. |
Refs: | IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 300 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1893 |
Nature: | Interior decoration: 'polychromatic colouring, gilding, and...high-class art decoration on tympana, friezes, imposts &c.', restoration of ceiling figures and gilding of background. Paintings of Christ and Virgin of Lourdes placed in panels on walls. Windows reglazed &c. Contr: R. Mannix, Francis St. |
Refs: | IB 35, 1 Nov 1893, 252 |
Name: | EARLEY, JOHN BISHOP * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1900ca |
Nature: | Side altars flanking High Altar and 6 stained glass windows. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; design for stained glass window exh. by John Earley at RHA 1903 (no. 268) |
Name: | EARLEY & CO. * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1902ca |
Nature: | Stained glass windows (SS Patrick, Joseph and Nicholas) in N wall of nave. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633. |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1915 |
Nature: | Chapel of Holy Family; also undated proposal for Nuptial Chapel, n.d. |
Refs: | Drawings, n.d.,1915, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son |
Name: | ROBINSON, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | Decoration. Contractor: The Craftworkers. |
Refs: | IB 69, 28 May 1927, 396 |
Name: | CLARKE, HARRY * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1928 |
Nature: | Stained-glass window (Marriage of the Virgin) in Nuptial Chapel. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633. |
Name: | MCGLOUGHLIN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC) |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | Tabernacle on high altar by ||J. & C. McGloughlin. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632 |