Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)

Name: ELSAM, RICHARD #
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1815
Nature: New church. 'Usually attributed to John Bowden, though Richard Elsam was paid for plans in 1815 and the design noticeably bristles with ornament unlike Bowden's usually conservative approach.'(Mulligan)
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249.


Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1816
Nature: New church. Attr. to John Bowden by Lawson. 'Usually attributed to John Bowden' (Mulligan). (Described in Pigot's Directory (1824) as 'a very handsome structure with a lofty spire, …which, though it has been used…for six or seven years, is yet in an unfinished state'.)
Refs: J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 231; Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 95(illus.);  DB 5, 1 Jun 1863, 96; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 245.

Name: CHANTREY, FRANCIS LEGATT (SIR) *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1826
Nature: Two-figure memorial to 2nd Earl of Farnham.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 102;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 250, Pl.67..

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1838p
Nature: Monument to Nathaniel Sneyd (d. 1833) probably by TK.
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1838p
Nature: Monument to Rev. Joseph Storey (d. 1838).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 250.

Name: WARD & NIXON *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1841;1850;1854
Nature: E window, designed by James Henry Nixon. For De La Poer Beresford family.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3088/ (last visited, Aug 2014).

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1854
Nature: Enlargement (2 new transepts, new chancel and vestry). WH contractor. Architect: Joseph Welland.
Refs: Letter to Welland from WH, 25 Oct 1854, explaining how a mistake in chancel arch occurred, in RCB Library, portfolio 20;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1854
Nature: 2 new transepts, new chancel and vestry. William Hague contractor.
Refs: Signed, undated drawing(s) and 2 letters to Welland from William Hague, 25 Oct 1854, and A. Hardy explaining how a mistake in chancel arch occurred, in RCB Library, portfolio 20; B 12, 11 Mar 1854, 133

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Quadruple-light stained glass window in S transept.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3088/ (last visited, Jan 2014).

Name: WARD & HUGHES *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1876
Nature: Quadruple lancet window in N transept (Sower & Reaper) in memory of the Rev. Joseph Carson Moore, 'executed by a London firm'.  Attrib. to Ward & Hughes by Lawrence in Gloine.
Refs: IB 18, 1 Oct 1876, 296;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3088/ (last visited, Jan 2014).

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1887
Nature: Pulpit and prayer desk, executed by C.W. Harrison in Caen stone and red and green marble. Prayer desk gift of Col. Cottingham as memorial to the Cottingham family.
Refs: IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 4

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1887
Nature: Carved pulpit and prayer desk to designs by Richard Langrishe.
Refs: IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 4

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1900
Nature: 2-light stained glass window in S wall of nave (Agony in the Garden, Risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene), for 10th of 11th Baron Farnham.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3088/ (last visited, Jun 2014).

Name: CLOKEY, WALTER F. *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH)
Date: 1937
Nature: Stained glass windows in S wall of chancel (Good Wife), S wall of nave (Parable of Wheat and Tares).  By Clokey & Co.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3088/ (last visited, Jan 2014).