Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1786
Nature: Spire. (Struck by lightning, 1932, and replaced with copper spire.)
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 262; E.McP files cite also H.G. Tempest, Notes on the Parish Church of St Nicholas;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 125.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1819
Nature: Monument to George Gillichan (d. 1817) with Good Samaritan relief.
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 264;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 54(illus.).

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1851p
Nature: Memorial to Alexander Shekelton (d. 1851).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1854p
Nature: Memorial to Elias Thackeray (d. 1854).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1859
Nature: Monument to Agnes Burns (d.1834), sister of Robert Burns, and her husband, William Galt (d.1847), erected; 'has a very chaste and characteristic effect'.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Sep 1859, 119

Name: FULLERTON, WILLIAM TURNEY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1861
Nature: Proposed new sittings.
Refs: Plans and letter from WF about same in RCB Library, portfolio 2B

Name: BARBER, WILLIAM SAMUEL
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Decoration & renovation
Refs: IB 53, 13 May 1911, 326

Name: BARBER, WILLIAM SAMUEL
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1932
Nature: Removal of steeple struck by lightning and replacement with copper spire.
Refs: IB 74, 22 Oct 1932, 650; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 262