1860 – St. John the Evangelist, Mounttown, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Architect: Joseph Welland
Designed as a Church of Ireland, and originally opened for public worship on 23 May 1860;
Rudolph Maximilian Butler (1872-1943)
Studied in Dublin and in continental Europe before being apprenticed to Walter Doolin, eventually establishing the partnership Doolin, Butler and Donnelly before practising privately. Editor of The Irish Builder from 1899 and one of the principal commentators on architecture in Ireland for the next thirty years.
Butler was a leading church architect. He also won the competition to design the University College Dublin (now National Concert Hall) building on Earlsfort Terrace and head of architecture in the college from 1924 to 1943. Another building in the Dublin area designed by Butler is the former Gorevans Department Store, a fine concrete building with its structure clearly expressed. President of the AAI (1906-7) and Fellow of the RIBA (1906).
1902 – Holy Cross Church, Crumlin Rd., Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: W.G. Doolin & Rudolph Maximilian Butler
Designed by Walter G. Doolin and completed by his partner Rudolph Maximilian Butler after Doolin’s premature death aged 52.
1909 – Dominican Chapel, Eccles Street, Dublin
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
Constructed between 1907-09, the chapel of the Dominican Convent and school was built above street level with a refectory hall underneath.
1911 – Carnegie Library, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
Built on land donated by Lord Powerscourt (8th Viscount), and funded by a grant of £600 from the Carnegie Trust.
1911 – Church of The Sacred Heart, Castletownbere, Co. Cork
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
The Church of the Sacred Heart was built in an imposing Gothic Revival style in 1907-1911 on the site of an earlier 19th century chapel.
1912 – Camden Picture House, Camden St., Dublin
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolf Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
1913 – St. Cronan’s Church, Balla, Co. Mayo
Architect: Doolin & Butler
This church is considered as one of the best designed by R.M. Butler and was commissioned at the same time as his church in Newport which it resembles.
1914 – National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
The National Concert Hall is built on part of the Coburg Gardens (now Iveagh Gardens) in which the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865 was held.
1917 – St. Cartha’s Church, Kilcar, Co. Donegal
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
Published in The Builder, January 5 1917.
1926 – Chapel Of The Passionist Fathers, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
The community was constructed between 1917 and 1926 with the Chapel of St Gabriel blessed on May 23 1926.
