Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)
Date: 1885-1890
Nature: New parish church to seat 120  built at sole cost of Lord Ardilaun. Contractor: Collen Bros, Portadown. Estimated cost: £5,600 (then £9,000, but eventually £20,000?). Tower and spire built by by A.P. Sharp, 17 Gt Brunswick St, who also made oak pulpit. Some of interior carving by  Mr Harrison, Great Brunswick Street.  Mosaic floor by Oppenheimer, Manchester. Church dedicated, 16 Dec 1889.
Refs: Designs for mausoleum, church tower and chancel mosaics in posession of church (2010);  designs for font & other furnishings, 1887-1890, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.63/1-5; IAA, PKS 0624; B13/25, B14/18, A07 (Jun 1885, Feb 1887-1890, pp.229, 297-8); IB 27, 1 May 1885, 138; 28, 15 May 1886, 150; 30, 1 Feb 1888, 33 (illus.); 31, 1 Sep 1889, 223 (illus.); 33, 15 Jul 1891, 158 (illus.); Jubilee Number 1908, 46 (illus); Irish Times, 12 May 1886, 4 Oct,14 Dec 1889;  RHA 1891, no. 496;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 294.

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)
Date: 1885-1890
Nature: Mosaic floor by 'Messrs. Oppenheim, of Manchester'.
Refs: Irish Times, 4 Oct 1889.

Name: SHARP, ALFRED PETER *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)
Date: 1897a
Nature: Carving, consisting of or including pulpit. For Lord Ardilaun.
Refs: Irish Times, 26 Oct 1897.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)
Date: 1905
Nature: 3-light window (Faith, Hope & Charity)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 48; John O'Grady, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser(1996), 248

Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH ROAD (RAHENY), CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, RAHENY PARISH)
Date: 1917
Nature: 2-light stained glass window, 'Censing angel, trumpeting angel', attr. to Rhind.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 48