Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WELLINGTON QUAY (& DOMINICK STREET), CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (RC, DOMINICAN)

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WELLINGTON QUAY (& DOMINICK STREET), CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (RC, DOMINICAN)
Date: 1870-1878;1883
Nature: C13 Gothic style. Dedicated 1878. Cost: £8,000. No contractor; local tradesmen used. Plasterer: Thomas Fox. Boundary railing: Grendon & Co., Dublin.
Refs: Design for pulpit, 1883, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman Collection, 76/1.44; IB 12, 15 May 1870, 114; 16, 15 Jan 1875, 26; B 36, 26 Oct 1878, 1130; History of Drogeda up to date (1893), ?; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 240