Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect who, in collaboration with OLIVER GRACE OLIVER GRACE , prepared plans and estimates for a new church at Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary, in the diocese of Cashel for Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel from 1779 to 1801.(1) Nowlan may be JOHN NOWLAN JOHN NOWLAN , who was clerk of works for the building of Castletown Cox, for Charles Agar's predecessor, Archbishop Michael Cox, in 1774.



References



(1) Plans, estimates and accounts by Nowlan and Grace, 1784-92, in Normanton MSS, Hampshire Record Office, M 57B14/18-19 and B7/2.


1 work entries listed in chronological order for NOWLAN, -


Sort by date | Sort alphabetically


Building: CO. TIPPERARY, LITTLETON, CHURCH (CI, BORRISOLEIGH PARISH)
Date: 1784-1792
Nature: New church by Nowlan and Oliver Grace. 'The church is a handsome edifice, partly in the later English style, and was enlarged by aid of a loan of £1000 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1820, and another loan of £923 was granted for its repair in 1928.'(Lewis)
Refs: Plans, estimates and accounts by Nowlan and Grace, 1784-92, in Normanton MSS, Hampshire Record Office, M 57B14/18-19 and B7/2;  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 217;  Clergy of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2010), 41(illus.),42;    Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 337(illus.)