Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: HOWGAN, -
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767
Nature: Howgan Jeremiah Hogan?) gives evidence before committee of Irish House of Commons re Archbishop Michael Cox's petition for a grant to complete cathedral, therefore presumably involved in design or construction of same
Refs: JHCI 8, clxx (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Mark Bence-Jones, 'An Archbishop's Palladian Palace', Country Life 152, 31 Aug 1972, 521-2.

Name: GRACE, OLIVER
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1781-83
Nature: Payments of over £600 to Grace for work on cathedral, for Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel.
Refs: Hampshire Record Office, Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).; A.P.W. Malcomson, Bishop Charles Agar: churchmanship and politics in Ireland, 1760-1810 (2002), 298,306-10; exterior illus. in Clergy of Cashel and Emly (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 46;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 336.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1791;1807
Nature: Tower and spire, for Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel. 2nd stage of tower and steeple, completed in 1807, different from Morrison's design and perhaps by a different architect.
Refs: Front elevation, s, & d. Jul 1791, in Hampshire Record Office, Normanton Papers, 21M57 B14/8; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 54-56(illus.)

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1866
Nature: Internal improvements (rearrangement of chancel and repewing).
Refs: Signed drawings (design approved, 4 Jun 1866) in Representative Church Body Library, portfolio 3, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/606-616 (last visited, Mar 2017); Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 247,249;  interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 336.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1875
Nature: Organ moved from gallery to chancel.  Gallery taken down.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 199, 23 Dec 1875, 308.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: New stained glass window by Meyer of Munich containing medallions surrounded by flowers and foliage.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no, 61, 26 Feb 1881,147;  illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3001/ (last visited, Sep 2016).

Name: HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [2]
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1912
Nature: Sexton's house. Tenders invited.
Refs: IB 54, 16 Mar 1912, 170