Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, BEDFORD ROW, PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, BEDFORD ROW, PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1821
Nature: New church 'built of cut stone, in the Gothic style, with iron balustrade and handsome entrance' (Lenihan)  Attribution to James and Reorge Richard Pain suggested by Lee & Jacobs, but no compelling stylistic evidence for this. (Later converted into Grand Central Cinema.)
Refs: Patrick Fitzgerald & John James McGregor, The history, topography, and antiquities, of the county and city of Limerick (Dublin, 1826-7), II, 565; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 689;  David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 175.