Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1826
Nature: 'The name of this place [Sandford] is derived from the cicumstance of Lord Mount-Sandford [Henry Sandford, 2nd Baron Mount Sandford] having, in 1826, erected and endowed an spiscopal chapel, under the provisions of an act  of 11th and 12th  of Geo. III. Though not possessed of any property in the neighbourhood, sympathising with a large population destitute of any place of worship for Protestants, his lordship liberally expended about £5000 in building a church, parsonage , and school-houses, besides securing an endowment of £50 per annum to the chaplain.  These buildingsoccupy a very interesting site;  the church is fitted up in a very chaste and simple style and is capable of accommodating 900 people...' (Lewis)   According to Costegalde & Walker the church was built 'thanks to the initiative of local banker and evangelist Robert Newenham'.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 544;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 296.  

Name: LANYON & LYNN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1858-61
Nature: Enlarged, with new front added as memorial to Henry Irwin. Archdeacon of Emly, who was rector of church for 30 years. Design of Lanyon & Lynn adopted, Dec 1858. FS laid 25 Jul 1860. Builder: Butler.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no 32, (Dec 1858), 636; 2, no. 14 (15 Aug 1860), 380;   DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 103; 2, 1 Aug 1860, 308; B 17, 20 Aug 1859, 556; 18, 15 Feb,14 Jul 1860, 30,447; 19, 12 Oct 1861, 699;  new front  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 296.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Sandford church to be pulled down and rebuilt at cost of some £5000 out of Shannon Fund. (Addition of aisles only?)
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 237, 1 Dec 1878, 357.

Name: PATTERSON, BENJAMIN THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1879
Nature: 'Mr Patterson' prepares plans for porojected alterations.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p. 11.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: Church being enlarged by JFF 'who has carried out the suggestion of Mr T.B. Patterson as to side aisles, &c.'. Galleries removed, ground floor extended by widening of side aisles, so as to accommodate about 1000 persons. Chancel added. Contractor: Tighe.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 22, no. 17, 24 Apr 1880, 342; 24, no. 113, 25 Feb 1882, 135.

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1927
Nature: 2-light stained-glass window (SS Peter & Paul)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 52

Name: YEATS, JOHN BUTLER *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Jack Yeats said to have painted blue sky and stars on ceiling, painted out in restoration of circa 1972.
Refs: J.G. Simms, Sandford Church, 1826-1976 (1976).