Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SHERIFF STREET UPPER, CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS (CI)

Name: JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SHERIFF STREET UPPER, CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS (CI)
Date: 1869-70
Nature: New church & adjoining schoolhouse on site donated by Charles Gaussen. For Trustees of Jane Shannon (who also endowed St Paul's, Glenageary, and St Kevin's, S Circular Rd).. Builder: Gahan & Son, Whitechurch, Rathfarnham. Consecr. 24 Jan 1870 by Archbishop of Dublin. Cost of church: £5000. Cost of large schoolhouse built at cost of £1000, defrayed by J.B. Ball, Merrion Sq. (Closed,1965, and demolished, 1968.)
Refs: IB 11, 15 Apr 1869, 92,93(illus.); 12, 1 Feb 1870, 25; 14, 1 Feb 1872, 35; Architect 3, 12 Feb 1870, 85;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 12, no. 129, 23 Feb 1870, 38; interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 291.