Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English monumental mason of Gloucester and Cheltenham. active, with his family,  from the 1790s until the 1860s.  The Lewises executed at least seven monuments in Ireland, five of them in St Patrick's Church of Ireland church, Monaghan, among which the most notable is 'The Vacant Chair', in memory of Augusta, Lady Rossmore (d. 1840).(1)

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(1) Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57, Pl.59.


7 work entries listed in chronological order for LEWIS, JOHN [2] *#


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Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MUNCHIN (CI)
Date: 1823p
Nature: Monument to Col. Thomas Ormsby.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1831p
Nature: Monument to Anna Westenra (d. 1831)
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 80.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1840p
Nature: Monument to Rev. Charles Evatt (d. 1840).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1840p
Nature: Monument to Arthur Lewis (d. 1840).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1840p
Nature: Monument to Augusta Rossmore (d. 1840), second wife of Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.

Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1844p
Nature: Monument to Co. George Knapton.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1845p
Nature: Monument to Samuel MacDowell (d. 1845)
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57.