Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1816-17;1835
Nature: 'The church, a neat edifice in the later English style, was erected in 1816, by a loan of £1300 from the same Board [of First Fruits], and enlarged in 1835,  by a grant of £460 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.'(Lewis).  Consecrated, 24 Oct 1817.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), 583;  Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 284;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 301 . 

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1869
Nature: Alts (reseating?). Contractor: Thomas Waldron.
Refs: Ground plan, signed also by contractor and dated 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 18; Rev. R.A. Warke, St Nicholas Church & Parish, Dunlavin 1817-1967

Name: RAMSAY, JOHN JAMES OCTAVIUS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1894
Nature: Pitch pine ceiling and choir stalls. JJOR presented with tea silver in recognition of his work on church and rectory, 1899.
Refs: Rev. Samuel Russell McGee, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow (1935), 8; Wicklow Newsletter, 9 Dec 1899; Rev. R.A. Warke, St Nicholas Church & Parish, Dunlavin 1817-1967.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1895
Nature: General Vestry Meeting decides to replace lath & plaster ceiling with one of pitch pine under direction of JFF, diocesan architect. To cost about £100.
Refs: Irish Times, 19 Mar 1895.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1897
Nature: New chancel in memory of Edward Pennefather, QC, of Rathsallagh, and Joseph Tynte, of Tynte Park.  Consecrated18 Aug 1897.
Refs: R.A. Warke, St Nicholas Church & Parish, Dunlavin (1967).

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DUNLAVIN, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1899
Nature: 3 stained-glass windows in new chancel (Christ disputing with the doctors; Christ with Mary and Martha; angel and women at the tomb) erected by Col. Fortescue Tynte in memory of his wife.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 25 Nov 1899;  Rev. Samuel McGee, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow:  a retrospect (1935), 8?;  illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2954/ (last visited Nov 2009).