Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN)
Date: 1845-1848;1852
Nature: New church built 1845-48 to replace church of 1763 on Pound St.. Tower added 1852.  (Church later largely demolished, but E end retained.)
Refs: Survey drawings, 1955, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; T. Kilgannon, Sligo and its Surroundings (1926), 127-8; Terence O'Rorke, History of the parishes of Ballysadare & Kilvarnet (Dublin, 1878), 126

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, HIGH STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC, DOMINICAN)
Date: 1899
Nature: Communion railing and mosaic work. (Church later demolished but mosaic for chancel gable survives.)
Refs: Tracing of design for communion railing, dated Nov 1899, and undated, perhaps later, designs for mosaic work (for Fr. Costello, Prior) in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.151/1-6