Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1830
Nature: Unexecuted scheme for 'chaste Ionic structure'.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1830, no. 267; advertisement for tenders and article in Louth Free Press, 15 May 1830.

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1834-1842
Nature: New church on site acquired in 1834. FS laid 19 Mar 1834. Walls built up to eave gutters by end of 1839. Roofed and glazed 1840. Opened 17 Mar 1842. Rib-vaulted ceiling, 1843. Total cost £25,000.
Refs: Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal 5 (May, 1842), 175-6 (extracted from a 'Newry Paper'); 7 (6 Jan, 1844), 9 (abridged from Newry Examiner); DB 5, 1 Aug 1863, 131; Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record, ? (TD wrongly called John Duff); H. Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 17 (no. 63); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 264-265; Paul Larmour, 'That eminent and tasteful architect', Perspective7, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1998), 59(illus.),60-61(illus.)

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1849-1851
Nature: Entrance screen. Cost about £900 (£596 exclusive of gates). Built by Robinson & Kelly, Belfast.
Refs: B 9, 26 Jul 1851, 466-7(illus.); DB 5, 1 Aug 1863, 131; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 264

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1853ca
Nature: Altar, reredos, sedilia and monument to Dr Coyne. E window being made by Hardman, Birmingham.
Refs: B 11, 9 Apr 1853, 236; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 45.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1872
Nature: Proposed communion gates.
Refs: Tracing, dated Nov 1872, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.84/3

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1889
Nature: Internal porch, baptistry fittings (gates by McGloughlin, Dublin).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, W.H. Byrne Collection, 2006/142.

Name: GRIMTHORPE, EDMUND BECKETT, 1ST BARON #
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1904
Nature: Designer of 'large Cambridge quarter chime clock' for cathedral. Clockmakers: Wm. Potts & Sons, Leeds & Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Refs: Building News 87, 9 Dec 1904, 824.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1908-9;1911;1915
Nature: Works; openwork towers at sanctuary end of church, 1909; new drain; new forecourt & gates
Refs: Designs, 1909,1911,1915, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 50, 13 Jun 1908, 374; 53, 22 Jul 1911, 501

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1909
Nature: Mosaic work on walls of chancel and side chapels
Refs: Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record, ? (B. of I); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 265

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1909;1914
Nature: Scheme for mosaic decoration to chancel and side chapels, executed by Oppenheimer, 1909. Tenders invited for redecoration of chancel and side chapel ceilings, Jul 1910.  Extensive works of internal restoration, including reflooring and new benches, proposed, 1914. Also undated decorative scheme for nave, aisles, and ceiling.
Refs: Drawings, 1 dated 1909, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.84;  Freeman's Journal, 19,20 Jul 1910, 29 Jan,20,21 Feb 1914;  Building News 106, 20 Feb 1914, 258; IB 56, 14,28 Feb 1914, 104,118

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1909;1920s?
Nature: Mosaic work on sanctuary walls and in side chapels, 1909, and later work?
Refs: Oppenheimer brochures, 1915ca and Mosaics for Church Decoration (1920s) (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1937
Nature: Sacristies, confraternity block. Neo-Tudor. Builder: J. Wynne & Co.
Refs: IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record, ? (B of I)

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: 1941-2
Nature: Presbytery &c. Tenders invited Mar 1941.
Refs: Designs in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 66, ? ? 1924, 982; IB 83, 29 Mar 1941, 170

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: ?
Nature: Tower added in memory of John Hamill, d. 1896. Builder: J. Wynne & Co., Dundalk. cost: £6,000.
Refs: Undated design for tower formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son,;  Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record, ? (B of I); IB 57, 24 Apr 1915, 185

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass windows on E. side representing Christ & St Malachy by 'Mssrs. W. Early & Son'
Refs: Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: ?
Nature: Altar in 'Dundalk Church' by Joseph Farrell.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 333; see Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 265

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, RODEN PLACE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC PRO-CATHEDRAL)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass windows in altar and entrance gables.
Refs: Rev. J.F. Stokes, St Patrick's Dundalk Centenary Record, ?; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 265