Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: WILLS, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1750-52
Nature: MW supervises rebuilding of same.
Refs: K. Severens, 'A new perspective on Georgian building practice; the rebuilding of St Werburgh's Church, Dublin (1754-59)' BIGS 35 (1992-93), 4, citing St Peter's Parish Vestry Book, 1737-1774, in RCB Library.

Name: CARSON, EDWARD HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1864-7
Nature: Restoration, consisting of erection of S  transept, raising of floor from 2ft 6ins below street level to 6 ins above it, removal of galleries, new windows throughout, removal of lath and plaster ceiling, erection of triple arches separating nave from transepts, replacement of fron with new one containing 5-ligtht traceries window, new tower, repewing, &c.. Builder: John Butler, Wellington Place. Capitals and corbels carved by Earley of Earley & Powells.  Church furniture and organ case by James Digges, clerk of St Stephen's chapel of ease. Brasswork by Curtis & Son.. Cost of whole nearly £7,000 though orinially expected 'not to exceed £3000'). Church re-opened 1 Nov 1867. (Demolished, 1983.)
Refs: Contract drawings, date of contract 8 Jul 1865, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectual Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/2684-2692 (last visited, Feb 2017);  IAA, PKS B03/28, A03 (Mar 1865, p.60v), L01 (p.773,775-6,786-8,793,797, 888, 943, &c.); RHA 1864, no. 398; DB 6, 1 Mar,1 May 1864, 34,82(illus.); 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 9, 15 Oct,1 Nov 1867, 277,287;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 6, no. 59 (20 May 1864), 124;  B 23, 28 Jan 1865, 70;  Irish Times,  30 Oct 1867;  'Annals of Dublin' in Post Office Dublin Directory (1875), 801; H.A. Wheeler & M.J. Craig, The Dublin City Churches of the Church of Ireland (1948), 34

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1867a
Nature: 5-light E window depicting scenes from the life of St Peter, erected in memory of Richard Wilson Greene.
Refs: Irish Times, 30 Oct 1867.

Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1928
Nature: Opes sectile panel: Charity. (Church now demolished)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 44

Name: NEVILLE, ARTHUR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, ST PETER'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed improvement. Design by Arthur Neville (or possibly Arthur Richards Neville?).
Refs: Signed undated drawing in NLI, old ref. AD 1445