Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, LAVEY, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, LAVEY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1820ca?
Nature: New hall and tower church.  'The church, a very neat edifice, was erected by aid of a gift of £900 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1817.'(Lewis)   Costegalde & Walker give date as 1822 and amount of gict as £830.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), 247;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 537;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 241.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, LAVEY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1881ca
Nature: Listed among churches in Kilmore diocese 'lately restored' or 'in process of restoration' in Bishops's report to Diocesan Synod, Sep 1881.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 90., 17 Sep 1881, 640.