Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUNDRUM, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC)

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUNDRUM, MAIN STREET, CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS (RC)
Date: 1876-79;1880;18
Nature: New church, 'built as far as practicable on the lines of the old chapel only much larger and with [a?] wider transept'.Also schools and presbytery. Dedicated, 6 Jul 1879. Builder: Meade & Son. Cost: £5274. Also presbytery.
Refs: IAA, PKS B06a/24, B09/28, A06 (Mar 1876); Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; design for communion rail, Feb 1880, and new pulpit, Jun 1890, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.88/1,2;  Irish Times, 7 Jul 1879 (gives long description);  N. Donnelly, Short Histories of Dublin Parishes, I, 120