Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1866-69
Nature: Adds. & alts. including repewing, new chancel with vestry and organ chamber. Cost: £1,224. Contractor: Edward Crowe, Bray.
Refs: DB 7, 1 Oct 1865, 238; 8, 15 Sep 1866, 229; drawing(s), signed by McCurdy and Crowe and dated 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 13;  B.H. Blacker, Sketches of Irish Churches (1871-73), ?

Name: WILMOT, JOHN CHARLES
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1909
Nature: JCW prepares sketch for entrance steps, railings and elevations for H.J.O'Carroll.
Refs: Irish Times, 13 Oct 1909.

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1911-12
Nature: Important alts. and adds, including new roof and extension of transepts to form side aisles, separated from nave by triple arcade of Bath stone. Also new floor and porch.. Church reopened, Feb 1912. Contractor: S.H. Bolton & Son. Estimated cost: £2492.10s. Heating and ventilation by G.N. Haden & Sons, Gt Brunswick St.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter 27 May 1911, 24 Feb 1912, 5 Oct 1912; IB 53, 4 Mar ,1 Apr,13 May,24 Jun 1911, 129,209,325,429; 54, 25 May 1912, 309; IA & C 1, 25 Mar 1911, 116; G.D. Scott, The Stones of Bray (1913), Appendix II, 201-7(illus.)

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1918
Nature: 2-light window
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 79