Selected: CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI)
Name: | WYATT, THOMAS HENRY # |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1863-1865 |
Nature: | Rebuilding, chiefly at expense of Lord de Vesci. Tower and spire of previous church retained. Consecrated 2 May 1865 by Bishop of Ossory. Builder: James Scanlan. Cost: £3,500. |
Refs: |
DB 5, 1 Apr 1863, 63; 6, 15 Nov 1864, 236; 7, 15 May,15 Oct 1865, 131,244(illus.); Jubilee Number, 1909, 68(illus.); exterior illus. in Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 184; exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 184. |
Name: | O'CONNOR, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1864ca |
Nature: | Stained glass in triple lancet window in south transept (Good Samaritan, Christ blessing children, Pharisee & Publican) in memory of William John Vesey (1806-1863).. |
Refs: |
DB 7, 15 May 1865, 131; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/location/building/2990/ (last visited Jun 2009). |
Name: | O'CONNOR, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1865 |
Nature: | 3-light stained glass window in S wall of S transept (Good Samaritan; Christ blessing Children; Pharisee and Publican). |
Refs: |
Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/14293/ (last visited, Dec 2016). |
Name: | WYATT, MATTHEW # |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1881 |
Nature: | Marble and alabaster pulpit erected in Abbeyleix Church, in memory of Rev. William Wingfield, rector for 44 years. Executed by C.W. Harrison.Also reading desk. Both inaugurated, 16 Mar 1881. |
Refs: |
IB 23, 15 Mar 1881, ?; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 23, no. 65, 26 Mar 1881, 218. |
Name: | POWELL, JAMES & SONS *# |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1886;1892 |
Nature: | Windows in sanctuary and chancel , 1886, designed by Henry Holiday. Westernmost window in south aisle of nave, designed by G. Rhead, 1892. |
Refs: |
Gloine, |
Name: | CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST * |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | 1929 |
Nature: | Stained glass in window in N transept (Christ as Good Shepherd). |
Refs: |
Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 62; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/artist.1456/location.2394/results (last visted Jul 2009). |
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [3] |
Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS (CI) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | New church. (W end only remains after remodelling). |
Refs: | M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146 |