Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1824-1830 |
Nature: | New Gothic church for Canon William Stafford for new parish of Rathmines on site purchased from Earl of Meath, 1824. FS laid by Lord Brabazon. Church dedicated to SS Mary & Peter by Archbishop Murray, 15 Aug 1830, while still only a shell.Cost: £5000. Absorbed by Classical church designed by Patrick Byrne. |
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Engraving of front elevation in IAA, Acc. 80/10.18 (repr. in Deirdre Kelly, Four Roads to Dublin: a history of Rathmines, Ranelagh and Leeson Street (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1995), 187; Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 105-107; History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013).. |
Name: | BYRNE, PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1850-1856 |
Nature: | New classical church replacing (and constructed around) Gothic church built 1824-30. For Father William Meagher. FS laid by Archbishop Murray, 18 Aug 1850. Masonry: John Lynch, Mount Pleasant Ave (Kimmage and Donnybrook stone with Ballyknocken granite). Roof & dome: William Hughes, Talbot St. Plasterwork: Hogan & Conolly, Great Brunswick St. Dedicated 19 Jun 1856. |
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William Meagher, Five engravings descriptive of the new church of Our Immaculate Lady of Refuge (Dublin, 1855); B 8, 30 Nov 1850, 568; 10, 31 Jan 1852, 76; 16, 8 May 1858, 321; IB 25, 1 Oct 1883, 311, refers to volume of engraved designs, published by Rev. W. Meagher at his own expense, 1855; N. Donnelly, Short Histories of Dublin Parishes, II, 85-90; History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013); Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 106-114(illus.).,173-175(plans). |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | Farrells undertook sculptural decoration of interior, including scheme for dome (Adoration by Host of Heaven, 150 figures) |
Refs: | W. Meagher, Brief Account of Rathmines Church (1855) in Clonliffe Archive, p238/6 |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | Statue of Our Lady of Refuge by James Farrell purchased at exhibition in Dublin, 1853, and placed in niche on front. Moved to apex of pediment after construction of portico. |
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W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 331; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 167-8(illus.); History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013). |
Name: | O'NEILL & BYRNE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1878--1885 |
Nature: | W front., with Portland stone portico, for Dr William Meagher. Contractors: Meade & Son. Clerk of works: Michael Smith ('highly intelligent'). Work started Mar 1878. Portico completed, 1881. Further works (wings?), 1881-85. |
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Drawings, 1878,1883, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; Irish Times, 12 Jun 1880, 6; IB 25, 15 Sep,1 Oct 1883, 284(illus.),311; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 43,193-4,ill.41; History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013); Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 113-115(illus.) |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1893-1896 |
Nature: | Altar rail, side chapel and porch |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1904;1906 |
Nature: | Rails |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2 |
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | 1920-1928;1939-40 |
Nature: | Restoration after fire of 26 Jan 1920 in which only Shrine of Perpetual Succour and sacristy survived, new much higher dome,1920-1928. Consulting engineer for construction of dome: A. Delap. Contractor for steelwork: A. & J. McGloughlin. Building contractor: Benjamin Millard, Pleasants Street. Baldacchino & & pulpit, 1939-40. |
Refs: | Designs, dated 1924-28, 1939-40, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 (for photographs of interior of church immediately after fire and in its restored state, see Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 116); IB 62, 13 Mar,22 May 1920, 141,163,365; 65, 24 Feb 1923, 134; 66, 14 Jun 1924, 526,1055; 67, ? ? 1925, 436; Freeman's Journal, 11 May 1920; Irish Times, 19 Apr 1923 (re construction of dome,illus.); History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013). |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF REFUGE (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Statue of Christ in the Temple by James Farrell. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 331 |