Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BALLYNURE, CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALLYNURE, CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION (CI)
Date: 1814
Nature:  'The church, a small neat edifice with a square tower crowned with pinnacles, was erected by aid of a gift of £800 from the late Board of First Fruits in 1814.'
Refs:  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 160;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 207.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALLYNURE, CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature:  Church reopened , 3 Oct 1858, after painting and improvements, including erection of gallery.  Ecclesiastical Commissioners present white marble font.
Refs:  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette1, no. 31 (Oct 1858), 622;  no. 36 (Apr 1859), 708.