Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1795p
Nature: Monument to Dr Joseph Moore (d.1795). Executed by M. Shanahan, Cork.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 72(illus.)

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [1]
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1795p
Nature: Monument to Dr Joseph Moore (d.1795).Designed by Richard Morrison.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (1975), 78; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 72(illus.)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1805
Nature: Choir shortened by 29 ft. New porch at west end mostly built of materials from White mortuary chapel; top storey of tower removed and octagonal addition substituted. Church covered with roughcast & lime wash. Gallery  and Corporation gallery removed.
Refs: W.P. Burke, History of Clonmel (1907), 263.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1857
Nature: Almost total rebuilding, but retaining E & W windows, chancel arch, lower storey of tower, aisle walls, 3-light porch window (from White chapel).
Refs: W.P. Burke, History of Clonmel (1901), 263; JRSAI 19 (1909), 252-254;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 339.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1864
Nature: Addition of N transept, W gallery, new sittings.
Refs: Signed dated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 27; IAA, PKS B02/35; General Advertiser, 6,13 Feb 1864