Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: BASS, ABEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1820;1822
Nature: AB contractor for rebuilding, started Aug 1820, and for building wall round churchyard, 1822.
Refs: Alice M. Best, 'St Paul's Parish, Dublin', JRSAI 104 (1974), 24.

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1821-24
Nature: New church in Tudor idiom.  WF reports on old church (built 1698-1701) in 1819. Architect for rebuilding, begun Aug 1821 with grant of £3,850 from Board of First Fruits. Contractor: Abel Bass. Bass's estimate of £107.10s.8d. for building wall round churchyard accepted Jul 1822, as also Charles Gibbons's estimate of £265 for railings. church consecrated, 12 Dec 1824.
Refs: Alice M. Best, 'St Paul's Parish, Dublin', JRSAI 104 (1974), 24;  Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 219;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 241.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1861
Nature: Sundry works to be executed according to plans &c. by the architects to Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Refs: DB 3, 1 Sep 1861, 620

Name: MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: Reorientation.  Reseating, new gallery, pulpit & reading desk, new chancel & N & S porches.  For Rev. Arthur Barton.  Contractor: Bolton.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p. 11;  IB 22, 1 Jul 1880, 193; design exh. RHA 1887, no. 491;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 241.

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KING STREET NORTH, ST PAUL'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Decoration of chancel.
Refs: Photograph of work as executed in IAA (010/056 Y1)