1954 – Mortuary Chapel, Naas, Co. Kildare
Architect: Andrew Devane, Robinson, Keefe & Devane
From a souvenir book published by the Leinster Leader for the opening of the chapel.
From a souvenir book published by the Leinster Leader for the opening of the chapel.
Designed to seat 300, this small modern church,
Very much a local landmark, the massive church was built between 1954 and 1956 of concrete and limestone.
Built on a twin pinnacled spur about 250 feet high,
Unattractive church from the 1950s,
Established as a parish in 1946 following the Second World War,
Rathcoole Housing Estate was one of the first large-scale housing schemes in Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.
Peppard & Duffy produced a couple of churches for the Dublin archdiocese in the 1950s.
Religious campus that was built around an existing house,
Sited across the road from its predecessor of 1820,