Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1821-22
Nature: 'The present church, a large and handsome edifice with a lofty square tower, was built in 1822 by aid of a gift of £900 from the late Board of First Fruits.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 154.

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1863-5
Nature: New district church built on old foundations, involving external recasing of walls and addition of of 2-bay chancel  & vestry  Builder: B. Maginnis. Church re-opened, May 1865. (Mulligan suggests involvement of Welland & Gillespie at early stages.) Whole expense borne by Marcus Synnot of Ballymoyer House.
Refs: Drawings, signed and dated Jan 1864, in RCB Library, portfolio 2A; DB 5, 1 Dec 1863, 197; 7, 1 Jun 1865, 144;   Armagh Guardian, 19 May 1865;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 7, no. 72, 17 Jun 1865, 147, quoting Ulster Gazette;  Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), list of works; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Co. Armagh (UAHS, 1999), 52-54(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013),174;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 129.


Name: EARLEY, THOMAS *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1864ca
Nature: Stained glass windows in chancel:  E window (Ascensiion with Angels) in memory of Marcus Synnot; window in S wall (Resurrection) in memory of Jane Synnot; windows in N wall (Entry into Jerusalem and Last Supper)  in memory of F.E. Synnot and John Synnot.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3410/ (last visited, Feb 2014).

Name: BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1865
Nature: Font, installed by Rev. Garret Wall in memory of his son.
Refs: DB 7, 1 Jun 1865, 144;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013),174.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: Church undergoing considerable alterations, which will soon be completed.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 217, 1 may 1877, 149.

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1877ca
Nature: 3 pairs of lancet windows n N wall of nave (SS Peter and Matthew; SS Andrew and Bartholomew;  SS John and James the Less) in memory of members of the Synnot family.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3410/ (last visited, Mar 2014).

Name: PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE #
Building: CO. ARMAGH, BALLYMOYER, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Floor tiles in baptistery 'to a Pugin design' (Mulligan).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 174.