Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (CI)

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1826-27
Nature: New church. Consecrated 3 Jun 1827.
Refs: Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 71M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146; Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (2001), 252;  interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 298.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1868
Nature: Addition of chancel.
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated June 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 15; IB 10, 1 Jul 1868, 168

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1876;1883?
Nature: Majolica tiling for wall behind communion table donated by Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, Bt.  'Several of parishioners have subscribed for flooring within communion rails with same material, and it is hoped that before very long the remaining portion of the chancel may be similarly tiled.'  Vestry in memory of Courtney Kenny Clarke of Larchhill will soon be completed.  In 1883 Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette reported that church had been 'lately; decoratedwith encaustic tiling on wallsand floor supplied by Mssrs. Sibthorpe' and that brass and iron communion rails by Jones & Willis, Birmingham, were to be erected; also that  parishioner was about to present a handsome brass corona for chancel.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 204, 23 May 1876, 151; 25, no. 170, 7 Apr 1883, 291.

Name: CLARKE, JOSHUA *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass window (Ascension).
Refs: Illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 298.