Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1827p
Nature: Memorial to Rev. F. Kenrick on E wall inscribed  M Flanagan designavit T Farrell fecit.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633.

Name: LEESON, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1829-1834
Nature: New church for Rev. Matthew Flanagan. JL 'mapped out the principal lines, the finishing touches were Dr Flanagan's' (Donnelly). Church dedicated 8 Nov 1841.
Refs: Cork Examiner, 10 Nov 1841; N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes, II, 69-71; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st ed., 1952), 293; Rosalind M. Elmes, Catalogue of Irish topographical Prints and Original Drawings (revised ed., 1975), no. 680 TB;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 631-3,pL.60..

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1831ca
Nature: Plaster Pietà by Hogan and plaster reliefs of Last Supper and Marriage of the Virgin to left & right of high altar by Hogan & John Smyth.
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p.1/2;  Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal 2, Oct 1839, 363-4;  John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 60(illus.),63(illus.),164-7;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 61-62(illus.).


Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1831ca
Nature: Plaster reliefs of Last Supper and Marriage of the Virgin, left & right of high altar by John Hogan & John Smyth.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 60(illus.),63(illus.),164-7; Clonliffe College Archive, MS p.1/2; N. Donnelly, Short Histories of Dublin ParishesII, 97;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632.

Name: POZZI, FRANCESCO *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1834
Nature: Large kneeling marble angels flanking high altar.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1857ca
Nature: Memorial (oval marble relief) to mother and brother of Rev. Matthew Flanagan.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 141-2

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1858
Nature: JB supervises completion of Leeson's design
Refs: B 16, 2 Oct 1858, 666; 17, 12 Nov 1859, 750

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1886
Nature: Pulpit (executed by Earley & Powell)
Refs: IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 300

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1886
Nature: New pulpit of Sicilian and Siena marbles erected to designs by W.H. Byrne.
Refs: IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 300

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1893
Nature: Interior decoration: 'polychromatic colouring, gilding, and...high-class art decoration on tympana, friezes, imposts &c.', restoration of ceiling figures and gilding of background. Paintings of Christ and Virgin of Lourdes placed in panels on walls. Windows reglazed &c. Contr: R. Mannix, Francis St.
Refs: IB 35, 1 Nov 1893, 252

Name: EARLEY, JOHN BISHOP *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1900ca
Nature: Side altars flanking High Altar and 6 stained glass windows.
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2; design for stained glass window exh. by John Earley at RHA 1903 (no. 268)

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1902ca
Nature: Stained glass windows (SS Patrick, Joseph and Nicholas) in N wall of nave.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1915
Nature: Chapel of Holy Family; also undated proposal for Nuptial Chapel, n.d.
Refs: Drawings, n.d.,1915, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1927
Nature: Decoration. Contractor: The Craftworkers.
Refs: IB 69, 28 May 1927, 396

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1928
Nature: Stained-glass window (Marriage of the Virgin) in Nuptial Chapel.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 633.

Name: MCGLOUGHLIN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA (RC)
Date: 1933
Nature: Tabernacle on high altar by ||J. & C. McGloughlin.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 632