Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILCULLEN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1824;1836ca
Nature: New church consecrated 23 May 1824. Erected with aid of grant of £1000 from Board of First Fruits. Enlarged to 'render it cruciform' with grant of £238 from Ecclesiastical Commissioners c 1836 (but existing church has no N transept). Enlargement 'tentatively attributed to [Frederick] Darley[2] by O'Brien.
Refs: Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 295; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 76;  Colm O'Brien,'The churches of Frederick Darley Jnr:  identification and attribution', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 16 (2013), 89;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 322. 


Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. KILDARE, KILCULLEN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1920
Nature: 2 stained-glass windows, 'The Resurrenction' and 'He hath delivered my soul in peace'.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 60