Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JAMES'S STREET, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JAMES'S STREET, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: New cruciform church partly erected on foundations of former church. Archts: Welland & Son. Builder: Thomas Henry Carroll. estimated cost nearly £500.  Opened 16 Dec 1860. 
Refs: Ground plan and S elevation, signed 'J. Welland' in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); B 17, 22 Jan,21 May 1859, 68,344; 19, 12 Jan 1861, 29;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 34 (Feb 1859), 670; 2, no. 18, 15 Dec 1860, 497;  DB 3, 1 Jan,1 May 1861, 390,498;  Irish Churchman, 2, no. 4, 15 May 1869, 52 (article on church including description of old church);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 625.

Name: CARROLL, THOMAS HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JAMES'S STREET, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: Builder of new cruciform church to designs by Joseph Welland.
Refs: Ground plan and S elevation, signed 'J. Welland' in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); B 17, 22 Jan,21 May 1859, 68,344; 19, 12 Jan 1861, 29; DB 3, 1 Jan,1 May 1861, 390,498.

Name: FOGERTY, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JAMES'S STREET, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1876-77
Nature: Restoration of tomb of Sir Toby Butler. Contractor: J. & W. Beckett.
Refs: IB 18, 1 Jun 1876, 167; 19, 1 Jan 1877, 13;  Irish Times, 23 Dec 1876.

Name: HEALY, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JAMES'S STREET, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1916
Nature: 2-light window (Faith, Hope & Charity).  (Moved to St Brendan's Church, Sydenham, Belfast, but not installed by 1988.).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 31.