Selected: CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE
Name: | STAPLETON, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1796-1800 |
Nature: | MS contractor for same. Work included extension of Stoyte House. Buildings inspected by Waldré, 1800. |
Refs: | JHCI 24, II 1797 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); NA/SPO 516/94/6 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 85 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1796-1801 |
Nature: | FS of new buildings, i.e. wings to existing house, laid 20 Apr 1796. Large payments for building made until 1801. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Maynooth payments, 1796-1846, MS p125/1; T.K. Cromwell, Excursions through Ireland (1820), ?; J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), II, ?; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 640 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1808-1810;1819 |
Nature: | Additional buildings. Contractor: John Curran. |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Maynooth payments, 1796-1846, MS p125/1 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1822;1825;1827;1829-1833 |
Nature: | Large payments for building work made (including part of enclosure wall, ball courts, second refectory and second chapel) |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Maynooth documents, MS p125/1 (includes specification, 26 Apr 1822, for adds. to S wing of college including external entrance & 2 granite staircases) |
Name: | PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE # |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1845-1850 |
Nature: | Designs, 1845, rejected as too expensive by Board of Works. AWNP appointed architect by Sir Robert Peel. resigned Jan 1846; reappointed July 1847 for reduced scheme. Contract dated 17 Jul 1847. Clerk of Works: Richard Pierce. Builder: W.H. Beardwood. Chapel not proceeded with 'owing partly to want of funds and partly an objection made on sanitary grounds by the ten physician to the college, now Sir Dominic Corrigan, who did not approve of closing entirely the north side of the quadrangle.' |
Refs: | Drawings in Clonliffe College Archive, Maynooth documents, MS p125/1, &125/2; bird's eye view, 1845, preliminary notes re numbers of students, and photograph of undated interior perspective of chapel in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, PB244/5, see A. Wedgwood, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: the Pugin Family (1977), 71, 105, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/2hQPByR8Ci/MAIN_CAT/8070038/13 (last visited Apr 2009); 14th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1846), 6;16th Annual Report (1848), 15(illus., repr. in F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), Pl.40); 17th Annual Report (1849), 25; 20th Annual Report (1852-3), 38; B 3, 6 Dec 1845, 585; 9, 31 May 1851, 346; 11, 22 Jan 1853, 60; Catholic Directory (1848), 225; DB 3, 15 Aug 1861, 603; Irish Times, 11 Oct 1875; Michael Trappes-Lomax, Pugin, a Mediaeval Victorian (1932), 334; Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 205; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 317-8; R. O'Donnell, 'The Pugins in Ireland' in P.Atterbury, ed., A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival (Yale, 1995), 148-153(illus.); Frederick O'Dwyer, 'A.W.N. Pugin and St Patrick's College, Maynooth', Irish Arts Review Yearbook (1996), 102-109; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 64,96,99(illus). |
Name: | OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS # |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1846 |
Nature: | TEH draws up plans for same following resignation of A.W.N. Pugin, Jan 1846. Pugin reinstated as architect, Jul 1847, so Owen's plans were not executed. |
Refs: | F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 156-7 |
Name: | CARSON, EDWARD HENRY |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1849 |
Nature: | EHC exhibits 'Proposed design for the R.C. College' at RHA |
Refs: | RHA 1849, no. 398 |
Name: | BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HAUGHTON * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1852-1853 |
Nature: | Work, including new belfry |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Maynoot documents, MS P125/2 |
Name: | BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HAUGHTON * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1859-1860 |
Nature: | New gateway to college cemetery (which was opened in 1817) |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, Maynoot documents, MS P125/2 (also p7/2 p15) |
Name: | PUGIN & ASHLIN |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1860s? |
Nature: | Design for chapel |
Refs: | Undated perspective drawing of interior in RIBA drawings collection, see A. Wedgwood, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: the Pugin Family (1977), 119; |
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1861-62 |
Nature: | Infirmary to N of main quadrangle. Plain Gothic. Contractors: Carolin & Kerr. Cost: £15,000. Contractor: George Carolin. |
Refs: | DB 3, 15 Aug 1861, 598; 4, 15 Feb 1862, 44; 32nd Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1863), 9; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 60 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1863a;1867 |
Nature: | Adds. to library and museum (by J.J. McCarthy?). £1000 spent on new(?) library and museum, 1867. Mason's work by Peter Kelly, 1872. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B05/51; 32nd Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1863), 9; Clonliffe College Archive, Maynooth documents , MS p125/2 |
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1875-1880 |
Nature: | Chapel. JJM appointed architect, 1875. Tenders invited, Jul 1875. FS laid by Archbishop of Armagh, 10 Oct 1875. Shell only completed at time of JJM's death. Contractors: Carolin & Kerr. Cost by 1880 £26,242.0s.11d. Completed by William Hague. Tower and spire finished to JMM's design, under supervision of T.F. McNamara, 1902. Cross on spire des. by JJM & exec. by John Fagan in copper. |
Refs: | RHA 1876, no. 278; 1879, nos. 311,367,374; Building News 79, 7 Sep 1900, 318; IB 17, 1 Feb 1875, 43; 43, 26 Sep,5 Dec 1901, 873,964; 44, 30 Jan,31 Jul 1902, 1021,1344(illus.); Irish Times, 7,9,12,21,23 Jul,2,4,5 Aug,11 Oct 1875; Freeman's Journal, 23,28 Jul,4 Aug 1875; Tuam Herald, 16 Oct 1875; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 60 |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1879 |
Nature: | New buildings on site of wing destroyed by fire in Nov 1878. Builder: Hammond & Co., Drogheda. £9,000. |
Refs: | IB 21, 1 Nov 1879, 344 |
Name: | HAMMOND, ARTHUR * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1887 |
Nature: | Proposed additions. Architect: J.L. Robinson. Estimated cost of A. Hammon's tender £8,371. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS A07 (Mar 1887) |
Name: | HAGUE, WILLIAM [2] |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1887-1891;1899- |
Nature: | Winner of limited competition for completion of same. Chapel 'to be built immediately'(1887). Opened 24 Jun 1891. Altars by Ryan (Dublin).Mosaic pavement by Burke (London). Organ by Stalhuth (Aix). Organ case by Buckley (Youghal). Stations of the Cross and painted ceiling by N.H.J. Westlake (London). Accessory ornament by Mannix (Dublin). Tower & spire carried out 1899-1901 under supervision of T.F. McNamara. |
Refs: |
Selected competition design exh. Irish Exhibition in London 1888, no. 349; Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306; B 60, ? Jun 1891, 494; 62, 16 Apr 1892, 307; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306; 42, 1 Sep 1900, 468; 43, 26 Sep 1901, 873; Irish Times, 4,8,13 Mar 1899. |
Name: | ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrant in limited competition for completion of chapel. design exh. RHA. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; RHA 1888, no. 479 |
Name: | MCCARTHY, CHARLES JAMES |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrant in limited competition for completion of chapel. Design exh. RHA. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306; RHA 1888 (no. 472) |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrant in limited competition for completion of chapel. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306 |
Name: | GOLDIE, CHILD & GOLDIE # |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrants in limited competition for completion of chapel. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrant in limited competition for completion of chapel. Design exh. RHA. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306; 30, 15 Jul 1888, 183 (illus.); RHA 1888, no. 473,476 |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Entrant in limited competition for completion of chapel. |
Refs: | Architect 43, 28 Oct 1887, 259; IB 29, 1 Nov 1887, 306 |
Name: | CONOLLY, WILLIAM, & SON * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1890ca;1901 |
Nature: | WC & Son contractors for chapel works, circa 1890, and for chapel tower, circa 1901. Architect: W. Hague |
Refs: | Clonliffe College Archive, MS p 352/1; IB 43, 1 Jan 1901, 592 |
Name: | BUCKLEY, MICHAEL JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1891 |
Nature: | Organ case (1891) in chapel |
Refs: | B 60, ? Jun 1891, 494; Paul Larmour, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Ireland (1992), 129, citing IB 46, 3 Dec 1904, 822. |
Name: | WESTLAKE, NATHANIEL HUBERT JOHN *# |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1891a |
Nature: | Stations of the Cross in chapel choir painted by NHJW and painted roof - one of the largest in UK with 90 life-size ¾ length figures- designed by him. |
Refs: | B 60, ? Jun 1891, 494. |
Name: | BUCKLEY, MICHAEL JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1897 |
Nature: | Wooden altar relief in chapel, executed by Pieter de Wispelaere |
Refs: | Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 74. |
Name: | DE WISPELAERE, PIETER *# |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1897 |
Nature: | Executed wooden altar relief to designs by Michael Joseph Cunningham Buckley, Youghal. |
Refs: | Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 74. |
Name: | MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1899-1901 |
Nature: | TFMcN supervised erection of tower and spire on death of William Hague. Contractor: William Connolly. |
Refs: | IB 42, 1 Sep 1900, 468; 43, 1 Jan,26 Sep 1901, 592,873 |
Name: | KAYE-PARRY, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1899ca |
Nature: | Main drainage. |
Refs: | Candidate's circular, 6 Nov 1893, submitted to Inst. CE (information from Miss Carol Arrowsmsith, Inst.CE archives) |
Name: | SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | O'Growney memorial tomb designed by Scott in form of small Celtic oratory. For Gaelic League. |
Refs: | Design exh. RHA 1904, no. 301; IB 46, 30 Jan 1904, 37; 47, 14 Jan,8 Apr 1905, 5,229-30(illus.); B 87, 31 Dec 1904,697(illus. in supplement); described in article by Robert Elliott in The Leader, ? ? 1905, ?; Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: the Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (1980), 138(illus.); Paul Larmour, '"The Drunken Man of Genius": William A. Scott (1871-1921)', Irish Architectural Review 3 (2001), 32,33(illus.) |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1905 |
Nature: | External improvements & alts. |
Refs: | IB 47, 12 Aug 1905, 541 |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1908-11 |
Nature: | Decoration and furnishing of Lady Chapel. High altar and reredos. Also proposed scheme for decoration of Students' Oratory. |
Refs: | Drawings, some dated 1909 & 1911, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.123; IB 50, 5 Sep 1908, 537; IA & C 1, 8,15 Apr 1911, 148,1568(illus.) |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1910ca |
Nature: | Mosaic work in Lady Chapel and cloister floor. |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochures,1915ca and Mosaics for Church Decoration (192?), 7(illus.) (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1922 |
Nature: | Improvements to Aula Maxima |
Refs: | IB 64, 23 Sep 1922, 654 |
Name: | ASHLIN & COLEMAN |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | 1929 |
Nature: | New wing and/or sanitary and gymnasium block.. Tenders invited, Sep 1929. |
Refs: | Drawing(s) for 6-bay Gothic gymnasium block in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection; Irish Times, 19 Sep 1929; IB 71, 28 Sep 1929, 876. |
Name: | BAILY, JOHNSON ## |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Society of African Missions hostel. |
Refs: | M.McDermott, Ireland's Architectural Heritage, p.153. |