Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1840-43
Nature: Church with Corinthian portico. Contract drawings, 1840. FS laid 1842 (Goslin says on St Matthias's Day, 24 Feb 1842., 'Annals of Dublin' say 15 Apr 1842). Opened 1843. Contractor: Henry Kingsmill. Unexecuted proposal for Italianate tower and clerk's accommodation, Dec 1843. (Demolished late 1950s)
Refs: Drawings, 1840-43, in IAA Murray Collection, Acc. 92/46. nos. 501-510 (see B. Goslin, 'History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection', MA thesis submitted to NUI, Jan 1990, 172-4); 'Annals of Dublin' (unpaginated) in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 96.

Name: LOUCH, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1850-52
Nature: Additions, new transepts and school house.
Refs: B 8, 24 Aug 1850, 403; 10, 3 Jan,23 Oct 1852, 13,677;  'Statement of the Louch family from their transplanting to Ireland in 17--' by Fitzgibbon Louch, Jun 1894 (copy in IAA)

Name: O'BRIEN, CATHERINE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1909
Nature: Stained glass window, 'Christ quelling the Tempest' (later moved to N porch of St Thomas's church, Cathal Brugha Street).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),