Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)

Name: DAVIS, WHITMORE [2]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1789
Nature: 'light Gothic structure', built with funds (£5000) from Peter La Touche.  Inscriiption on W door states that it was built in 1789. Consecrated, 31 Jul 1791.
Refs: J. Ferrar, View of Dublin (1796), 86;  Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001), 272; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 301(illus.).

Name: HICKEY, JOHN [2]*
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1790
Nature: Monument to David La Touche. (Restored by Mssrs. Harrison, 1895, see IB 37, 15 Jul 1895, 176.))
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 481; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments (UAHS, 1975), 49-50

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1854
Nature: To be enlarged.
Refs: B 12, 10 Jun 1854, 305

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1870-71
Nature: New chancel with vestry on N; new aisle windows. (According to George Henderson, Glendalough Architects Reports, 1872, church had been 'almost rebuilt'). Church was re-opened for divine service on 7th November, 1871.
Contract for work to cost £1,000 initially, but cost then increased by a further £700-800.
Works included a 'really handsome carved-oak Pulpit and Reading-desk'. Sculptural work such as corbels on marble pillars attributed to Messrs Harrison & Son; a stained glass window executed by Messrs Mayer of Munich.


Refs: Drawing(s), approved 1870, in RCB Library, portfolio 18; drawings., &c., 1870-71, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17.40. Further information about works from Judith Flannery, Christ Church Delgany, 1789-1990. Between the mountains and the sea, a parish history (1990), 94-5.


Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1901
Nature: Stained glass window representing Fall of Jericho erected in memory of Herbert J. Robinson.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 17 Aug 1901

Name: WILMOT, JOHN CHARLES
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1907
Nature: Plans prepared by JCW for mortuary chapel in memory of late Dr Browne being erected by executor Thomas Hewson. Builder: Frazer, Bray.
Refs: IB 49, 6 Apr 1907, 252

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, DELGANY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1920
Nature: 2-light ar memorial window, 'The Faithful Warrior', erected 1920.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 15 May 1920;  gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2970/ (last visted, Nov, 1999).