Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST THOMAS'S CHURCH (CI, OLD)

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST THOMAS'S CHURCH (CI, OLD)
Date: 1758-1762
Nature: New church, modelled on Palladio's church of the Rendentore at Venice. FS laid 1758; finished 1762; '...the church of St Thomas is an exact copy from a design by Palladio, with some omissions, not to the advantage of the composition' (Malton). (Church destroyed during fighting on 22 Jul 1922, see Irish Times, 30 Jun 1925.))
Refs: Robert Pool & John Cash, Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin (1780), 90(illus.);  James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  IB 8, 1 Feb 1866, 30; 64, 29 Jul 1922, 525(illus.); APSD, S, 93; H.A. Wheeler & M.J. Craig, The Dublin City Churches (1948), 36; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 179; E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 203;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 125.

Name: VIERPYL, SIMON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST THOMAS'S CHURCH (CI, OLD)
Date: 1758-1762
Nature: Ornamental stone carving by SV.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 489

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST THOMAS'S CHURCH (CI, OLD)
Date: 1809
Nature: Proposed completion of front and 130 ft. steeple
Refs: Drawings in RCB; design exhibited Society of Artists of Ireland 1809, no. 88; Warburton, I, 502