Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI)
Date: 1793-1796?
Nature: 'The church, situated in the town, was erected in 1796, aided by a private loan and voluntary subscriptions to the amount of £1000;  it is now in a dilapidated state, and it is in contemplation to take it down and rebuild it, for which purpose the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have granted £1058.'(Lewis). Date of church given as 1793 in Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough and Costegalde & Walker.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 496;  Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001) , 318;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 303.


Name: GUINNESS, ROBERT WYNDHAM
Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI)
Date: 1895-1900
Nature: Renovation of church, including removal of galleries and re-pewing, in consultation with James Franklin Fuller. Proposed chancel not carried out.  38 plans with alternatives exhibited by him to building committee. (Some 'minaret terminals and crockets' from demolished parish church in Arklow presented to Rathdrum church in 1901.)  Dedicated, May? 1900.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 27 Apr,13 Jul 1895, 25 Apr 1896, 29 Jan 1898, 21 Apr 1900;  Irish Times, 18 May 1900.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI)
Date: 1895-98
Nature: JFF consulted re restoration for which Rev. Wyndham Guinness was architect.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 13 Jul 1895; 25 Apr 1896; 29 Jan 1898; 21 Apr 1900