Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, BECTIVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. MEATH, BECTIVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1853a;1858
Nature: New church built and endowed at sole expense of Rochard Bolton of Bective Abbey. Opened Jan? 1853. Consecrated, 13 Oct 1856. Chancel added 1858.
Refs: Signed undated design for addition of chancel in RCB Library, portfolio 23; B 11, 5 Feb 1853, 90; 16, 7 Aug 1858, 539; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette I, No. 8 (Nov 1856), 151;  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 162.