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. |