Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, DELVIN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, DELVIN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Date: 1873-1874;1876-7
Nature: French Gothic. FS laid Oct? 1870. Contract signed 1872 (£6,431 for church, £2,081 for tower and spire) Contractor: W.R. Davis. Spire not built to height of original design. Decoration, 1889?
Refs: IAA, PKS B06/48, B06a/41, B07/32, A06 (Sep 1874); IB 15, 1 Nov 1873, 298; RHA 1882, no. 648; View of church exh. Irish Exhibition of Arts & Manufactures, Dublin, 1882, no. 628; Rev. J. Brady, History of the diocese of Meath 1867-1944, 377; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993) 200-201, Pl. 132; detail drawing (dated 1888) of roundel decoration (Lion of St Mark) in IAA Ashlin & Coleman Collection, 76/1.186.

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, DELVIN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Date: 1912
Nature: Renovation & repointing of external masonry & cut stone
Refs: IB 54, 8 Jun 1912, 348