Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1826
Nature: Restoration; alteration to tower, including corner pinnacles, window, louvres, double doors and archway and replacement of pyramidal roof with flat one.
Refs: Design for proposed alteration to tower, 1826, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings , https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/2601 (last visited, Feb 2017);  H.A.Wheeler & M.J.Craig, Dublin City Churches (Dublin 1948), 12; IB 19, 1 Feb 1877, 36; John Crawford, 'An archaeological survey of st Audoen's Church, Cornmarket', Dublin Historical Record 49 (Autumn 1996), 87;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 339.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1848
Nature: Repair of interior, new pews, unroofing of 10 ft of chancel. Builders: J. & E. Barker.
Refs: IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 298

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Church reopened after improvements, Sep 1860; 'the mural monuments and brasses were relieved of countless coats of whitewash;  the unsightly window at the east-end was reglazed with coloured glass;  the chancel was newly carpeted and furnished;  the curious square Norman font...was repaired and readjusted;  the tottering old vestry was rmoved, and a new one erected, and the recumbent effigies of the Earl of Portlester and his wife together with the figure of a mediaeval ecclesiastic were...placed under cover in the church porch.' New chancel window gift of Mr Davis, eminent glass merchant of Abbey Street and Jervis Street.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 2, no. 15 (15 Sep 1860), 407; 6, no. 66 (20 Dec 1864), 263.

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1887
Nature: Repair work, including clearing out of windows on N side of choir, 'which will ultimately be filled with iron rails', and of ancient doorway in late Tudor style to W of windows. In contemplation to open out passage from church to Watergate.
Refs: IB 29, 1 Feb 1887, 33