Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (FINDLATER CHURCH)

Name: LEIPER, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (FINDLATER CHURCH)
Date: 1862-64
Nature: Decorated Gothic. Gift of Alexander Findlater. Cost: £14,000. Cost of site: £2,600. FS laid late Nov or early Dec 1862. Builder: Samuel Bolton. Under superintendence of WL, resident assistant to the architect, Andrew Heiton. Opened 17 Nov 1864.
Refs: IAA, PKS A03 (Jun 1862, p.91v); DB 4, 15 Nov,15 Dec 1862, 290,291(illus.),320; B 19, 22 Jun 1861, 436; 20, 6 Dec 1862, 880; 22, 9 Jul,26 Nov,3 Dec 1864, 518,872,890; 23, 18 Mar 1865, 197; 36, 1 Jan 1894, 4,12(illus.);  Irish Times, 25,27 Nov 1862;  W.B. Kirkpatrick, DD, ed., Memorial Services in connection with the removal of the congregation of Mary's Abbey to Rutland Square, Dublin (1865), 48-51; 'Annals of Dublin' in Post Office Dublin Directory (1875), 800; www.scottish architects.org.uk

Name: HEITON, ANDREW, JR. #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (FINDLATER CHURCH)
Date: 1862-64
Nature: Decorated Gothic. Gift of Alexander Findlater. Cost: £14,000. Cost of site: £2,600. FS laid late Nov or early Dec 1862. Builder: Samuel Bolton. Erected under superintendence of William Leiper, AH's resident assistant . Opened 17 Nov 1864.
Refs: Set of original designs in church (information from Ms. Dell Lundy, 2014);  DB 4, 15 Nov,15 Dec 1862, 290,291(illus.),320; B 19, 22 Jun 1861, 436; 22, 9 Jul,26 Nov,3 Dec 1864, 518,872,890; 23, 18 Mar 1865, 197; 36, 1 Jan 1894, 4,12(illus.); Irish Times, 25,27 Nov 1862;  W.B. Kirkpatrick, DD, ed., Memorial Services in connection with the removal of the congregation of Mary's Abbey to Rutland Square, Dublin (1865), 48-51; 'Annals of Dublin' in Post Office Dublin Directory (1875), 800; Alex Findlater, Findlaters - the story of a Dublin merchant family 1774-2001 (A. & A. Farmar, 2001), 38-40; www.scottish architects.org.uk;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 25,36(illus.)

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (FINDLATER CHURCH)
Date: 1882p
Nature: Monument to Rev. B. Kilpatrick, to left of altar.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 135.