Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)
Date: 1821-22
Nature: New church with pinnacled tower. Cost: £1,000 (lent by Board of First Fruits)..
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vo. 36, 6; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 273; exterior illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 78, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 168.

Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)
Date: 1853
Nature: Survey drawing by AH, Aug 1853, showing new N & S transepts, robing room, new window in N.wall, in RCB. Architect: J. Welland.
Refs: RCB Library, portfolio 10A; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 273

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)
Date: 1853
Nature: Survey drawing by Alexander Hardy, Aug 1853, showing new N & S transepts, robing room, new window in N.wall, in RCB. Architect: J. Welland.
Refs: Drawing, signed and aug 1853 in RCB Library, portfolio 10A; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 273; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt. 1, 78(illus.)

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)
Date: 1861-1863
Nature: New chancel (and robing room?), new gallery with stairs in W porch. Contractor for stairs and gallery: Robert Ferguson.
Refs: Drawings, s. & d. Jul 1861 (contract signed Apr 1863) in RCB Library, portfolio 10A; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt 1, 78(illus.)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, EGLINTON, CHURCH OF ST CANICE (CI, FAUGHANVALE PARISH)
Date: 1899
Nature: New chancel in Perpendicular Gothic style with hammer-beam roof.   Erected by William Scott of
Willsborough in memory of his wife and daughter.
Refs: Plaque in church (information from David Lawrence, Gladestry, Powys, Jan 2011)