Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1817
Nature: New church, complted 1817, 'a remarkably neat structure in the Later English style', largely financedt by Francis Synge, Esq. (of Glanmore Castle) 'assisted by a gift of £800, and a loan of £1000 from the late Board of First Fruits'.  Consecrated 28 Oct 1817. (NB. Francis Synge employed William Farrell to design outbuildings at Glanmore in 1815.) (Corbels and plasterwork said to be by plasterer named D'Arcy of Ashford, who had worked at Dublin Castle.)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 144;  Wicklow Newsletter, 2 Nov 1917;  W.J.R. Wallace, ed., Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 300;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 303;  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 37-48(illus.),57.

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1842
Nature: Shallow chancel and transepts added by FD.
Refs: 5 designs, dated Mar 1842, in Representative Church Body Library Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/3039 3035-3039;  Colm O'Brien,'The churches of Frederick Darley Jnr:  identification and attribution', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 16 (2013), 90;  Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 47(illus.), 48-49,51(illus.).

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1845p
Nature: Memorial to John Synge (d. 1845).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55;  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 161-163(illus.).

Name: O'CONNOR, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1863
Nature: 3-light window in S transept in memory of Isabella Catherine Tottenham and 3-light window in N transept in memory of Frances Emily Truell.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/ and http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/  (last visited, Sep 2017);   Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 128-130(illus.),135-140(illus.).

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1867
Nature: Triple lancet window in S wall of nave (Good Shepherd; Agony in the Garden; Christ blessing the Children) in memory of Robert Truell and Robert Holt Truell attr. to WW by David Lawrence in Glioine.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/ (last visited, Sep 2017);  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 131-135(illus.).

Name: HARTLEY, THOMAS HENRY #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1875p
Nature: Low relief image of a mourning hussar for the monument to Captain Henry Maxwell Howard (d. 1875) erected by his brother officers in the 18th Hussars.
Refs: Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 164-166(illus.).

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1882
Nature: New vestry, coal store and enlargement of chancel. Cost over £500. Contractor: Pemberton, E Hanover St, Dublin. Consecrated, 17 Jun 1882.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 130, 24 Jun 1882, 445,   Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 50.

Name: COX & BUCKLEY *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1882
Nature: Window in S wall of chnacel (Christ walking on the water) in memory of Frances Emily Truell.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/ (last visited, Sep 2017);  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016),118-122(illus.).

Name: KEMPE, CHARLES EAMER *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1902-03
Nature: E window by Kempe & Co. erected by Crofton family in memory of Major Crofton of E Surrey Regiment.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 3 Nov 1917;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/ (last visited Jan 2010);  Wicklow and Killiskey Parishes, http://wicklow.glendalough.anglican.org/index_files/Page411.htm (last visited, Jan 2010);  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 108(illus.),113-118(illus.).

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1904;1917
Nature: Blind arcade on N, E and S sides of chancel. Bath stone, Co. Cork mred marble and Derbyshire alabaster. Donated by Lt-Col. Charles George Tottenham, executed by C.W. Harrison & Sons and completed 1904.  Panels under E window completed in commemoration of church's bi-centenary, 1917,
Refs: Wicklow and Killiskey Parishes, http://wicklow.glendalough.anglican.org/index_files/Page411.htm (last visited, Jan 2010);  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 50-51, 70-71(illus.), 85(illus.)

Name: DE WISPELAERE, PIETER *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1905
Nature: Carving of pulpit, reading desk and eagle lectern.  Pulpit gift of Mrs Marie Anne Gertrude Crofton, in memory of her husband, Masjor Henry William Crofton; reading desk and eagle lectern presentresd by members of the Casement family in memory of Julius Casement
Refs: Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016),37-48(illus.),57.

Name: O'BRIEN, CATHERINE *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: 1935
Nature: Stained glass window (Christ's entry into Jerusalem) in S wall of chancel, erected in memory of Lady Cornelia Truell
Refs: gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2937/ (last visited, Sep 2017);  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 122-128(illus.).

Name: BALLANTINE, ALEXANDER *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, NUN'S CROSS (ARKLOW), CHURCH (CI, KILLISKEY PARISH)
Date: ?
Nature: Monument to Rev. John Fletcher (d. 1854).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 36;  Patricia Butler, Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures (2016), 146(illus.),149-150(illus.).