Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)

Name: HARTWELL, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1795-97
Nature: JH awarded premium of £20 for his plan for reconstruction of church following its destruction on 8 Jan 1860. Builder: William Pemberton. (JH resigned in 1800 and work was completed by Francis Johnston.)
Refs: Bolger MSS NA/PRO 1A 58 126,127,128;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 2, no. 7 (15 Jan 1860), 145-6;  DB 2, 1 Feb 1860, 195, quoted in APSD, IV, H, 27-8; H.A. Wheeler and M. Craig, Dublin City Churches (1948), 9.

Name: LEWELLYN, JAMES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1800-01
Nature: Plaster and stucco work.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 7 Jul 1801.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1800-1807;1810
Nature: Completion of church, including interior decoration, entrance porch and tower (only partly built). Contractor: James Lever, North Strand. Opened 7 (or 8?)  Mar 1807.  Cost (including organ) about £22,000.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 759-773 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 227-238; Bolger MSS NA/PRO 1A 58 126,127; Whitelaw, Warburton & Walsh, History of Dublin (1818), I, 511-512;   Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 2, no. 7 (15 Jan 1860), 145-6;   'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3; 'Annals of Dublin' in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 469.


Name: CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1800?
Nature: Drawings by T. Cunningham, perhaps his own design or perhaps as draughtsman for F. Johnston?
Refs: Drawings on loan to IAA from Select Vestry of St Andrew's Church, Acc. 92/111.1-4 (repr. David J. Griffin & Simon Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive(1993), 42,43); see also Murray Collection Catalogue, 235.

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1803-04
Nature: Portland stone statue of St Andrew. Estimate of £113.15s. for executing same submitted 6 Jun 1803. Statue placed over doorway 16 Jun 1804. Removed to corner of yard when church was rebuilt.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Feb 1860, 195; IB 13, 1 Oct 1871, 249; B 24, 13, Jan,24 Nov 1866, 23,874;  Irish Times, 1 Feb 1894;  W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 388; Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 469.

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1806
Nature: Bryan Bolger measures masonry by JS on steeple.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST ANDREW'S STREET, ST ANDREW'S CHURCH (CI, 2ND)
Date: 1853
Nature: Ecclesiastical Commissioners have decided on sundry works to be done at the churches of St Andrew and St Mark, Dublin'.
Refs: B 11, 9 Apr 1853, 236