Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN)

Name: CORBETT, WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN)
Date: 1876-1886
Nature: New church designed by W.E.C. Tenders invited, Apr 1875.  FS laid 28 May 1876.   Bulding begun, 1879.  Builders: McCarthy & Guerin. Corinthian portico and most of nave erected, but church not completed until 1886.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 15,16,19 Apr 1875;  North Munster Antiquarian Journal (1957), 1 (gives date as 1876); M. Craig & Knight of Glin, Ireland Observed(1970), 78 (gives date as 1879);  Limerick Diocesan History Project, http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Franciscans/textFranciscans.htm (last visited, Apr 2012).

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN)
Date: 1928-1931
Nature: Extension and enlargment by addition of apse and sanctuary. Consecrated Dec 1931. Contractor: Michael Gough, Wolfe Tone St, Limerick. Apse not completed until 1942 when lands behind church were bought.
Refs: IB 69, 10 Dec 1927, 920; Architect & Building News 120, 19 Oct 1928, 517; Irish Press, 2 Dec 1931; Limerick Diocesan History Project, http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Franciscans/textFranciscans.htm (last visited, Apr 2012). 

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, HENRY STREET, CHURCH OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC, FRANCISCAN)
Date: 1930s
Nature: Mosaic work in Chapel of St Anthony (and sanctuary floor?).
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing advertisements in English Catholic Directory, 1931, 1934, and Irish Catholic Directory 1931.