| Name: |
UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
| Building: |
CO. LEITRIM, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (CI, KILTOGHART PARISH) |
| Date: |
1829 |
| Nature: |
Rebuilding of church of 1698: ' a handsome structure with a spire and clock, which was given by C. Manners St George, Esq.: this gentleman also presented, in 1837, a fine painting of the Nativity by [Carl Gustaf?] Plagemann'.(Lewis) (for complicated history of this painting, now in St George's Heritage and Visitor Centre, see Arthur Laird, 'The Nativity Painting', Leitrim Guardian, 2001, 67, http://www.leitrimguardian.ie (last visited, Mar 2017). Cost £2,500; loan of £2000 from Board of First Fruits; |
| Refs: |
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 276; exterior illus. in Clergy of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 285(illus.),287; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 251 (which gives date of 1827 and cost of £2,500).
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