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New church consisting of nave,aisles, chancel and two side chapels.for Oblate Fathers. Entrance through W gable with 8-light window above. 3-light windows in aisles. Nave lit by 24 lofty windows in clerestorey. FS blessed and laid, 16 Jul 1876. Church dedicated 8 Dec 1878. Contractors: Meade & Sons..Chancel, side chapel and sacristies, 1892-1903. Communion railing, executed by Pearse & Sons, 1901, also altars on W side. |
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Drawings and prints, 1870-1889, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.64/1-11; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; IAA, PKS 0718, 0746, A06 (Feb 1876), A07 (Apr 1892, Dec 1894-Jan 1895, pp.313, 431), B06a/21, B15/59(missing); IB 17, 1 Dec 1875, 329 (illus.); 20, 15 Dec 1878, 368; 43, 10 Oct 1901, 893; Irish Times, 10 Jul 1876,13 Aug 1877,9 Dec 1878,16 Dec 1884; B 37, 18 Jan 1879, 82; also ref in Architect 1884? (B of I); Irish Exhibition of Arts & Manufactures, Dublin, 1882, no. 558 (model); RHA 1884, no. 369; 1901, no. 296 (design for W side altars);
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