Selected: CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Name: | WELLAND, JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1858-1861 |
Nature: | New cruciform church with circular tower with conical roof. Nave, full-length aisles, transept 'and three rows of open stalls'(?). 2 magnificent arches, one over chancel and one over transept, together with 4 smaller arches 'joining the massive pillars which are to support the roof'. Limestone from Courtown Harbour, with granite dressings from Blessington, Co. Wicklow. Builder: John Butler, Wellington Place, Dublin. To cost about £6,000, of which £500 raised by voluntary subscription and the remainder contributed by Ecclesiastical Commissioners'. Opened 27 Mar 1861 and consecrated 6 Jun 1862. |
Refs: |
Signed drawing(s), inscr.'Appvd. May 1858' in RCB Library, portfolio 17, and ground plan, N & E elevations, signed 'J. Welland' in RCB Library,MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 2, no. 4, (15 Oct 1859), 76; no. 36 (15 Jun 1862), 514; DB 3, 1 Jan,1 Apr 1861, 391,472; B 22, 6 Aug 1864, 589; exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 347. |
Name: | HEMS, HARRY *# |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1884 |
Nature: | Oak lectern in memory of Rev. Charles Hamilton. |
Refs: | B 46, ? Jan 1884, 80 |
Name: | HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM * |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1895 |
Nature: | Caen stone pulpit in memory of Lt. Gen. Guise. |
Refs: | IB 37, 1 Nov 1895, 251 |
Name: | CLARKE, HARRY * |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1922;1923 |
Nature: | 2 windows in N transept St Stephen (SS Luke & Martin of Tours; St Stephen). |
Refs: |
Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 78; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2894/ (last visited, Dec 2016). |
Name: | GLASBY, WILLIAM *# |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, GOREY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1924p |
Nature: | Opus sectile panel in memory of Arnold George Ellis (d. 1924) in baptistery. |
Refs: | Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2894/ (last visited, Dec 2016) (attr. to Ethel Rhind by Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 78). |