Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1844-1850
Nature: New church in Early Pointed Gothic style. FS laid 3 Jun 1844; dedicated, 24 Jun 1850. (Tower & spire by John Bourke). Cost: £10,000.
Refs: B 8, 10 Aug 1850, 375; 16, 9 Oct 1858, 682; Catholic Directory 1846, 278(illus.); 1847, 294(illus.); APSD, K, 6; N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes III (1913), 135-137

Name: KIRWAN, MICHAEL C.*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1850a
Nature: High altar in Carrara marble.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 7 June 1850 (reference courtesy of Dr Caroline McGee); N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes III (1913), 137

Name: CASEY, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1858
Nature: Stained-glass windows in chancel and N & S transepts by Casey Bros.7.
Refs: B 16, 18 Sep 1858, 638;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 133.

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1858;1861-1862
Nature: Completion of church begun by J.B. Keane; new tower and spire; parochial house
Refs: Clonliffe College Archies, MS. P1/2; B 16, 9 Oct 1858, 682; 19, 3 Aug 1861, 534; DB 3, 1 Jul 1861, 564; 4, 1 Jun,15 Aug,15 Oct 1862, 141,214,267;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 133.

Name: O'NEILL, PATRICK J. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1882
Nature: Sacred Heart altar 'by O'Neill'.
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1882a
Nature: Design or sketch exh. Irish Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1882 (no.636).
Refs: ALEI, II, 612

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).


Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEVILLE PLACE, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Plans for same by CG.
Refs: MS list of plans in office of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA);