Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, GLASTHULE, GLASTHULE ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC)

Name: PUGIN & ASHLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, GLASTHULE, GLASTHULE ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC)
Date: 1866-67
Nature: New church, for Very Rev. - Harold. Builder: James McCormack. Estimated cost: £5237.3s.5d. FS laid 30 May 1867. Consecrated 10 Oct 1869.
Refs: Undated aerial perspectives and design for pulpit in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.76/1.98; DB 8, 1 Oct 1866, 243; IB 9, 1,15 Apr,1 Jun 1867, 90,94(illus.),140; 11, 15 Oct 1869, 237 (where given to GCA); Architect 2, 23 Oct 1869, 206; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'A Victorian Partnership - the architecture of Pugin & Ashlin', in J. Graby, ed.,150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 1839-1989, (RIAI, 1989), 57-58;  information from Dr Gerard Hyland, citing Stephen Welsh Papers on EW Pugin (1975) in RIBA Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, GLASTHULE, GLASTHULE ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC)
Date: 1882ca
Nature: Tower & spire proposed about 1882 (but not executed). Design for high altar exh. at Irish Exhibition of Arts & Manufactures, Dublin, 1882.
Refs: N. Donnelly, Short Histories of Dublin Parishes, I, 216; IALE, I 20.

Name: WRENN, JAMES PURCELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, GLASTHULE, GLASTHULE ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC)
Date: 1910-13;1920
Nature: New confessionals, frames for side altars, 1910-1913 (Contractor: Louis Monks, Dun Laoghaire.   Alterations to high altar, designs for Lady altar, station frames, vestry table, 1920. For Very Rev. Canon Joseph Murray.
Refs: Letter-book of J.P. Wrenn, 1898-1903, ff. 1-19 &c., in IAA, James Purcell Wrenn collection, Acc. 2009/20, on loan from Mrs Dympna Carton and Mrs Oonagh Maguire.