Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, MOUNTCHARLES, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DONEGAL, MOUNTCHARLES, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: New 3-bay church with paired lancet windows, chancel, W bellcote.  Consecrated, May or June 1864.
Refs: Plans & elevations, signed 'J. Welland' in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); unsigned, undated plans and elevations of church with no chancel in RCB Library, portfolio 25; B 17, 5 Mar 1859, 173;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 6, no. 60 (18 Jun 1864), 145; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 426; F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 166(illus.)