Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, TYRRELLSPASS, CHURCH OF ST SINAN (CI, CLONFAD PARISH)

Name: BACON, JOHN [2]*#
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, TYRRELLSPASS, CHURCH OF ST SINAN (CI, CLONFAD PARISH)
Date: 1814
Nature: Monument to George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere (1738-1814). Sculptural group showing recumbent earl with his mourning wife kneeling at his feet and figure of Faith supporting his head and pointing upwards to an angel above.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 35-36,Pl. 30;  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 530.

Name: BOOTH, J.
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, TYRRELLSPASS, CHURCH OF ST SINAN (CI, CLONFAD PARISH)
Date: 1818
Nature: New spire with inscription 'J. Booth Arch. 1818' at base of spire.Cost £2,500.  Erected at expense of A. Boyd (of Middleton Park)
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 4 (no. 32 (15 Jan 1862), 373;  information from Richard McLoughlin, April 2014. 

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, TYRRELLSPASS, CHURCH OF ST SINAN (CI, CLONFAD PARISH)
Date: 1828a?
Nature: 'The church is a handsome edifice in the later English style, with a tower surmounted by a well-proportioned spire...the late Board of First Fruits lent £250 in 1828, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £147 towards its repair.'(Lewis|)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 361;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 320.   

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, TYRRELLSPASS, CHURCH OF ST SINAN (CI, CLONFAD PARISH)
Date: 1861
Nature: Internal alterations, including new pews. G.A. Boyd of Middleton Park contributed to latter and presented pulpit and reading desk.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gezette 4 (no. 32 (15 Jan 1862), 373.