The Bird Avenue Clonskeagh Church competition

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    • July 31, 2002 at 8:25 pm #705630
      dc3
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      During the 1950’s the Diocese of Dublin held a competition for a new church on Bird Avenue, Dublin.

      A winner was declared, but the Bishop decided not to build this design, and selected another design.

      Anyone have a copy of the plans, or sketch, of the winning design? I have never seen it reproduced but it might have been in some magazine or other.

      I dont think the IAA have a copy.

    • August 1, 2002 at 10:06 am #720406
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Sounds interesting. Any more info? Who was the winning architect? Who designed the final church?

    • August 1, 2002 at 1:04 pm #720407
      bigjoe
      Participant

      i work around the corner from this. the church there now is not bad at all (from a building point of view and not a religious one 🙂 )

      would be interesting alright to see the winning design.

    • August 1, 2002 at 2:15 pm #720408
      LOB
      Participant

      This is the one that was built

    • August 1, 2002 at 3:07 pm #720409
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      o sweet jesus

    • August 4, 2002 at 11:24 am #720410
      dc3
      Participant

      “Who designed the final church?”

      The present church is by Jones & Kelly(1958), a strange mixture, exterior not at all bad but with an especially dull interior – Bertrand Grovenor Goodhue’s Nebraska Capitol tower belfry, goes to Byzantium inside.

    • August 4, 2002 at 3:47 pm #720411
      fjp
      Participant

      The current church really is quite nice from the outside. Years of atheism has fogged my memories of the interior. The photograph above probably doesn’t do it real justice, since you’ll rarely find yourself flying above it in a helicopter.

      But really, the tower (can’t call it a steeple) looks quite cool, and the domes on top look nice in profile. The bulk of the building is rarely seen, as there are no real access roads behind and to the sides.

      All this is relative though. They probably could have built something nicer, but I’m pretty sure they could also have built something much, much, much worse.

      fjp

    • August 5, 2002 at 12:06 pm #720412
      dc3
      Participant

      Here is what it looks like.

    • August 6, 2002 at 8:49 pm #720413
      dc3
      Participant

      This rather downplays the heavy, dark stained glass – it was an unusually bright day.

    • August 6, 2002 at 10:38 pm #720414
      fjp
      Participant

      SWEET JESUS THE YELLOW!!!!!

      Yeah, that’s the way I remeber it, although perhaps with a white roof or something. The big thingy behind the alter brought it all back too (and the strange lights). It’s a pleaseant church….

      fjp

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