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SILLERY, CHARLES HENRY
- Born: 1763? Died: 1843?
Architect who was responsible for repairs to a bridge on the Dundalk to Ardee road in Co. Louth, about three miles from Ardee, in 1822.(1) Perhaps the same person as the architect named Sillery who produced a proposal for stables at Slane Castle, Co. Meath(2) and who built the west end of Ardee Church of Ireland church circa 1812-14.(3) A Charles Sillery, who died on 3 March 1843 at the age of eighty and other members of the Sillery family (including a Henry Sillery) are buried in the Church of Ireland graveyard at Slane.
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References
(1) Plaque on bridge (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(2) Information from Mark Odlum, Jun 1978 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(3) RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).
5 work entries listed in chronological order for SILLERY, CHARLES HENRY
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Building: | CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1812 |
Nature: | Church repaired and rebuilt preserving only brick piers and portion of tower of previous church.New battlemented front added; 'Mr Sillery' [i.e. Charles Henry Sillery?] architect and/or contractor of latter. Mark Williams and Gibbon paid £5.8s.4d. for furniture for church in 1820-21. |
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RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane); JRSAI 38 (1908), 213; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 117; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 124. |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1812 |
Nature: | Church repaired and rebuilt preserving only brick piers and portion of tower of previous church.New battlemented front added; 'Mr Sillery' [i.e. Charles Henry Sillery?] architect and/or contractor of latter. Mark Williams and Gibbon paid £5.8s.4d. for furniture for church in 1820-21. |
Refs: |
RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane); JRSAI 38 (1908), 213; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 117; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 124. |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1812-14ca |
Nature: | 'Mr Sillery' paid £510.16s.4d in 1812-13, £125 in 1813-14 and £95.lls.9d. in 1814-15 for building west end of church. (Was he also the architect or contractor for the rest of the work on the church which was carried out a this time?) |
Refs: |
RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane). |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, ARDEE (NEAR), BRIDGE |
Date: | 1822 |
Nature: | Repairs to bridge on Dundalk road about 3 miles from Ardee.. |
Refs: | E.McP files, citing plaque on bridge. |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed design for stables by - Sillery. |
Refs: | E.McP files, citing information from Mark Odlum, Jun 1978 |