Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1820-22
Nature: New church built adjacent to old one; 'a plain building with an embattled tower surmounted with pinnacles, erected in 1820 by the late Board of First Fruits, at a cost of £900' (Lewis). Consecrated, 15 Sep 1822.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 152; John D’Alton, The History of the county of Dublin (1838), ? (George Henderson, 'Extracts from Glendalach Architects Reports, 1872', says church was built in 1810);  Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 262;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 300. 

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM *
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: Memorial tablets in memory of Lt. Woolfe, Royal Scots Greys (d.1885) and also his father.
Refs: IB 28, 15 Jan 1886, 18

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1894
Nature: New chancel with stained glass east window erected by Hon. Charles Crichton in memory of his parents the Earl & Countess of Erne. Removal of plaster ceiling of nave also funded by Crichton. Building work, stone & wood carving by A.P. Sharp, 17 Great Brunswick St.
Refs: Irish Times, 30 Apr 1894;  IB 36, 1 Nov 1894, 249

Name: DRAKE, F., & SONS *#
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1898p
Nature: Single light stained-glass window representing the Faithful Warrior erected in memory of Sir Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, Bt (1831-1898) by his children.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter 43, 13 Aug 1898; gLOINE, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/location/building/2959/ (last visted Jul, 2009).

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYMORE EUSTACE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1914;1918
Nature: 2 stained-glass windows.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1486/building.2959/results (last visited Jul 2009).