Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1787a |
Nature: | 'A small village well situated with ... the shell of a very handsome church of uncommon form, but very far from being finished within'. For Robert Waller? Note on survey drawing, 1866, gives date of original dedication as 14 Jul 1772.) |
Refs: |
MS journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1787-8. |
Name: | COFFEE (OR COFFEY), JAMES |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1822-24 |
Nature: | 'James Coffey, Architect' paid £21.13s.6d. in 1822 in connection with erection of steeple. Stonemason, James Ryan, paid total of £524.16s.6½d for steeple between 1822 and 1824. Steeple described as 'handsome octagonal tower ... added in 1823' by Lewis. (Church and steeple demolished.) |
Refs: |
RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 430. |
Name: | WITHERS, ROBERT JEWELL # |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | RJW makes survey plan of existing building. Did he also design ensuing alts? |
Refs: | Signed undated drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 3 |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NEWPORT, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1868 |
Nature: | New windows throughout, replacing 18th c. wooden ones. New pews. Designs by R.J. Withers? |
Refs: | Drawings, signed by Welland & Gillespie, inscr. with date of contract (1868) in RCB Library, portfolio 3; DB 8, 15 May 1866, 133 |