Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: 1876
Nature: Proposed new convent buildingsadjacent to existing villa occupied by nuns. Proposed L-shaped chapel embracing rear and side of villa, with adjoining cell block and school adjoining far end of cell block.   FS of new convent laid, 29 Jun 1876. Estimated cost: £12000.(Not clear how much, if any, of Hague's design was executed.)
Refs: Undated drawings formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son;  Irish Times, 30 Jun 1876;   Rev. M. Clarke, Wicklow Parish 1844-1944, 30.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: 1901
Nature: Extensive alterations & nuns' block
Refs: Drawings formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 43, 6,20 Jun 1901, 754,768

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: 1903-1906
Nature: New chapel . Gothic. Dedicated 21 Jun 1906. 1906.
Refs: Drawings, 1903, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Wicklow Newsletter, 23,30 Jun 1906.

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work, presumably in chapel.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: 1920ca?;1928;19
Nature: Lady altar, 1920ca?;St Joseph's wing adds, 1928; hall block, 1939; boys' house, 1941; new wing and concert hall, 1942.
Refs: Designs, dated 1920ca?,1928,1939,1941, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 84, 29 Aug 1942, 308,311;  IB 84, 29 Aug 1942, 311.

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, WICKLOW, ST MARY'S CONVENT (DOMINICAN)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass. Also wooden crucifix and oil paintings of Crucifixion and Christ comforting the women of Jerusalem.
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 205;  Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244