Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)

Name: MORAN, MICHAEL BROPHY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Date: 1856-66
Nature: Plans 'given by M.B. Moran, Esq, Architect, Dublin', by 1856. Early English with nave, chancel, side aisles, tower and sacristy. FS laid 28 Sep 1860 by Dr Doran. Dedicated 5 Sep 1866.. Estimated cost: £7,000. Dedicated 1866. Pulpit: J. Digges, Lincoln Pl, Dublin. Chancel altar stained glass: Earley & Powell. Glass in 7 lancets of chancel E wall, William Wailes, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Refs: [W.J. Battersby], A History of the the abbeys, convents, churches, and other religious houses of the Order…of St Augustine in Ireland (1856), 185; DB 1, 1 Oct 1859, 133; 5, 15 Jul 1863, 120; B 17, 17 Sep 1859, 616; 19, 9 Feb 1861, 97; design exh. RHA 1860 (no. 386); Drogheda Argus, 16 Jun 1866; George Henry Bassett, Louth County Guide and Directory (1886),103; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 240

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Date: 1866
Nature: Glass for 7-light E window including figures of SS Augustine, Monica, Nicholas of Tolentino, Patrick. (Replaced by Harry Clarke glass.)
Refs: DB 8, 1 Jun 1866, 147; B 24, 9 Jun 1866, 432; Drogheda Argus, 16 Jun 1866.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Date: 1869-1870;1876
Nature: GCA paid for works including St Joseph altar, 1869 (on view at O'Callaghan's Marble Works, Jun-Jul 1869) and organ gallery, 1876
Refs: Transcript made, 1962, by Father F.X. Martin of extracts (relating to Augustinian order only) from Ashlin cash book then in possession of Herbert Thomas Coleman(?) (transcript in Jones file); undated drawings for altar rails, gates, mosaic floor to chancel and side chapels in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76.1.46/1-5;  Freeman's Journal, 28 Jun 1869.

Name: SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Date: 1907
Nature: Marble high altar.  Tenders invited, Feb 1907;  in course of completion, Oct-Nov 1907. Sculptor: Early & Co, Camden St.
Refs: Irish Times, 23 Feb 1907;  IB 49, 19 Oct,22 Nov 1907, 729,761.

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, SHOP STREET, CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Date: ?
Nature: East window
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 240