Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, BUNCLODY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI, NEWTOWNBARRY PARISH)

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BUNCLODY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI, NEWTOWNBARRY PARISH)
Date: 1776
Nature: Designed by TC for Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham.
Refs: Portfolio of 13 drawings, 2 s. & d. 1776, in Farnham Collection (sold at auction by HOK Fine Art, 17 Jun 2004, Lot. 280);  exterior illus. in Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 434.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BUNCLODY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI, NEWTOWNBARRY PARISH)
Date: 1869
Nature: Re-opened after considerable alts. & repairs 14 Jul 1869. (Galleries removed, chancel and robing room added, new open timbered roof, new pews, new East window 'of same design as that in the Memorial Church at Lucknow...supplied by a London firm'.(Replaced, 1927.) Cost £900. Contractor: Faircloth, Carlow
Refs: IB 11, 1 Aug 1869, 175;  Irish Churchman 2, no. 7, 21 Aug 1869, 102.

Name: BURGES, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BUNCLODY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI, NEWTOWNBARRY PARISH)
Date: 1877-78
Nature: New west front and additional bay in memory of Robert Westley Hall-Dare & Charles Hall-Dare. Rose memorial window to Mr Hall-Dare representing Good Samaritan and side windows all supplied by Saunders & Co., Endell St,  London;. Work supervised by Robert B. Phillips. Church reopened 14 Aug 1878. Contractor: Faircloth, Carlow.
Refs: J. Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981), 209;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 217, 1 May 1877, 152; 20, no. 234. 1 Sep 1878, 252;  IB 20, 1 Sep 1878, 247.

Name: PHILLIPS, ROBERT BOYLE
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BUNCLODY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI, NEWTOWNBARRY PARISH)
Date: 1877-78
Nature: New west front in memory of Robert Westley Hall-Dare & Charles Hall-Dare. Erected to designs by William Burges under supervision of RBP. Church reopened 14 Aug 1878. Contractor: Faircloth, Carlow.
Refs: J. Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981), 209; IB 20, 1 Sep 1878, 247