Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOME FARM ROAD (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI (RC)
Name: | ROBINSON & KEEFE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOME FARM ROAD (DRUMCONDRA), CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI (RC) |
Date: | 1938-1941 |
Nature: | New 'modernised Romanesque' church to accommodate nearly 1,600, for Rev. J. Dwyer. FS laid Sep or Oct 1939. Dedicated Jun 1941. Contractor: John Sisk & Son. Cost: £70,500. (Design as executed very different from and better than original design which illustrated programmefor fun-raising carnival, May 1937 (copy in IAA.) |
Refs: |
Drawings, 1939, in IAA (on deposit from Robinson, Keefe & Devane), 86/93.13/1-37; IAA, PKS 0334; IB 81, 14 Oct 1939, 870; 82, 14,28 Sep 1940, 576,602; 83, 5 Jul 1941, 325(illus.); illus. in The Bell 4, no. 1 (April 1942), 34 (copy in IAA, RPC.96.5); RIAI Year Book (1943 & 1944), 19(illus.). |