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), |