Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC)
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | Monument to Rev. Thomas Clarke. |
Refs: | Statues of Piety and Charity exh. Society of Artists of Ireland, Dublin, 1810, no. 239; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57 |
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | Monument to William and Ann Bayly probably by TK. |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57 |
Name: | SWEETMAN, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1814-1825 |
Nature: | Sweetman said to have produced winning design in competition of 1814 (drawings signed 'P') |
Refs: | William Meagher, Notices of the life and character of …Daniel Murray, late archibishop of Dublin (1853), ? (quoted extensively in letter from 'Old Mortality' in Architect 16, 30 Dec 1876, 390); IB 69, 10 Dec 1927, 898; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 55,126-7. |
Name: | CURRAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1815-1821ca |
Nature: | JC contractor for carpentry work. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger papers, NA/PRO 1A/58/128; N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes (1905), Part 12, Section 1, 91 |
Name: | TAYLOR, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1816 |
Nature: | 'Morrison and Taylor' architects of front. |
Refs: | George Newenham Wright, Historical Guide to Dublin (2nd ed., 1825), 254 |
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1816-1819; 1821 |
Nature: | RM in charge of works at same, 1816-1819 and? 1821. APSD gives building to 'Morrison & Taylor' (i.e. John Taylor), 1816-19. |
Refs: |
Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128; APSD, D, 75; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 128-9. |
Name: | KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1818-1844 |
Nature: | Apptd. to supervise building works as 'Mr Morrison's clerk'' 19 Jan 1818; probably re-employed on quarterly basis, 30 Jun 1818; south portico, 1834-37; east portico 1838-44 (Contractor: Ballantine & Son, £4,300); bell frame, 1844. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archives : Pro Cathedral box (Accounts 1810-1825, 1834-35, 1837-43; also 1803-1824 volumes); RHA 1835, no. 270; Freeman's Journal, 4 May 1838 (includes list of contributors to front portico); Catholic Directory (1845), 198 |
Name: | LEESON, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1819-1822 |
Nature: | JL clerk of works from 20 Aug 1819 to 26 Jun 1833 when building works suspended. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Pro-Cathedral Box, Account Book (or Minute Book?) 1810-1825 |
Name: | BAKER, THOMAS [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1821 |
Nature: | Stonecutters' work, with Robert McCartney. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger papers, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Name: | LENEHAN, DENIS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1821a |
Nature: | DL had specific contract fo masonry and bricklaying; 'later' bricklayer's work by 'Lenahan' measured by Bolger, 31 Jul 1821. |
Refs: |
NA/PRO Bolger MSS, 1A/58/128; N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes (1905), Part 12, Section 1, 91 |
Name: | BOURKE, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1823 |
Nature: | Work on nave ceiling supervised by JB. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129. |
Name: | PAPWORTH, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1823-1827 |
Nature: | Architect in charge of finishing interior. Designed vestibule and organ gallery, 1823. Architect for re-erection of Sacrd Heart and Blessed Virgin altars from Liffey St chapel, 1825. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive MSS., Pro-Cathedral Box; APSD, P, 40; M. Purcell, Dublin's Pro-Cathedral (1976); ; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129-130. |
Name: | TURNERELLI, PETER * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1823;1825 |
Nature: | Recumbent effigy of Archbishop John Thomas Troy in N aisle, 1823. High altar, 1825. |
Refs: |
J. Gilmartin, 'Peter Turnerelli, Sculptor', BIGS 10. Pt. 4 (1967), 11-12(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129,130. |
Name: | LEONARDI, GIUSEPPE *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1823p |
Nature: | Monument to Archbishop Thomas Troy (d.1838). Executed in collaboration with an unknown Italian master carver. |
Refs: |
Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 52(illus.). |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1824 |
Nature: | High relief of Ascension in apse. Cost £150. |
Refs: | N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes (1905), Part 12, Section 1, 97; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129. |
Name: | DOOLIN, WALTER [1] * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1825 |
Nature: | Re-erection of 18th cent. Sacred Heart and Blessed Virgin altars from Liffey Street chapel in ambulatory of Pro-Cathedral in accordance with plan by George Papworth. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129-130. |
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1828p |
Nature: | Monument to Thomas Dillon with Good Samaritan relief 'may safely be attributed to Thomas Kirk' |
Refs: |
H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57; attribution supported by Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 54-55; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130. |
Name: | KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1844 |
Nature: | Belfry 'in course of erection', 1844. Great bell hoisted into place, 25 May 1844. Contractor: Hughes. |
Refs: |
Tuam Herald (citing Monitor), 1 Jun 1844. |
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1845 |
Nature: | Sculpture in pediment of E portico depicting the Virgin with Saints Laurence and Kevin. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 129. |
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1846-49 |
Nature: | Monument (marble relief) to Peter Purcell (1778-1846). |
Refs: |
B 8, 10 Aug 1850, 376; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 91(illus.),135-6; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130. |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1855 |
Nature: | Statue of Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin, by Thomas Farrell, assisted by Michael Farrell, who did figure of Prudence at base. |
Refs: |
W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 339; DB 5, 1 Feb 1863, 18; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 159-60(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130, pl.79. |
Name: | LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1861 |
Nature: | Reconstruction of side altars (SS Joseph and Laurence O'Toole). Builder: William Hughes. Marble work supplied and fixed by Mr Hibson. One (or both?) of these erected as tribute to memory of O'Conor Don. |
Refs: |
DB 3, 15 Jan,15 Mar,1 May 1861, 409,460,501; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130. |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1881 |
Nature: | Statue of Cardinal Cullen, by Thomas Farrell. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 338; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 163-4(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),130. |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1883-1886;1897- |
Nature: | Renovation, decoration of interior, &c Reopened, 8 Dec 1886.. Sacred Heart altar, executed by Edmund Sharp, dedicated Passion Sunday, 1898. Contractor for redecoration and renovation: William Martin, St Stephen's Gn. |
Refs: | Designs for benches, prie-dieus, console, 1883-1884, and for communion rail and new window, 1897, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc.76/1.70; IAA, PKS A07, p.266 (Jun 1886); IB 27, ? ? 1885, 111; 28, 1 May, 1,15 Oct, 1 Nov 1886, 127, 277, 285; see also Architect for 1886 (B of I); The Illustrograph, 2 May 1898 (quoted in E. Sharp's publicity brochure of 1920s, 68-69)) |
Name: | MAYER & CO. *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | E window: Immaculate Conception with SS. Kevin and Laurence O'Toole. |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130. |
Name: | SHARP, EDMUND * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1899p |
Nature: | Monument in form of marble aedicule to Col. Walter Balfe (d.1899). |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 130. |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1915a? |
Nature: | Mosaic work (aisle floor?). |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | 1922;1927-8;1945-46 |
Nature: | External repairs, 1922. Scheme of improvements, including removal of side walls and incorporation of S portico and St Kevin's chapel within body of church, 1927-8. |
Refs: | Designs, dated 1927-8,1945-6, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 64, 21 Oct 1922, 722; 69, ? ? 1927, 52; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),129. |
Name: | SMYTH, WILLIAM * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | WS 'employed in the sculpture work'. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 391 |
Name: | BARFF, FREDERICK SETTLE * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Decoration |
Refs: | B 16, 4 Sep 1858, 607 |
Name: | GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Plans for same by CG. |
Refs: | MS list of plans in stable of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3)) |