Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)

Name: REILLY, JOHN LUSHINGTON
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1822
Nature: Proposed gallery and alterations.
Refs: Drawing by ILR[John Lushington Reilly], 24 Oct 1822, in IAA, 77/42. (formerly in possession of Reilly's descendant H.M.R. Drury)

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1822a
Nature: Proposed alterations, gallery.
Refs: Drawing by ILR[John Lushington Reilly], 24 Oct 1822, in IAA, 77/42

Name: HAY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1825
Nature: Proposal for rebuilding spire.
Refs: RCB Library, Vestry books of church of St Nicholas, Galway (information from Michael Richardson, Jul 2009).

Name: ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1866
Nature: Proposed improvements..
Refs: Drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 26

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: Stone and marble, pulpit, prayer desk and lectern erected.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 217, 1 May 1877, 151.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: New 5-light E window by Mayer of Munich and London. Subjects: Christ as Good Shepherd, Raising of Jairus’s daughter, Agony in the Garden, Christ calling the children and Mary at the Sepulchre. St Nicholas, Evangelists and angels in tracery glass.. Cost defrayed by H.S.Persse, Esq.

Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 25, no. 162, 10 Feb 1883, 122;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3047/ 

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Replacement of eaves on tower with parapet
Refs: Typescript biography of Richard Langrishe by Hugh R. Langrishe (2007), 24.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Improvements.
Refs: IB 52, 19 Mar 1910, 168

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, MARKET STREET, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed repewing.
Refs: Drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 26