Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (CI)

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (CI)
Date: 1764-1766
Nature: Monument to Earl of Charleville.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal 11-14 Oct 1766; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 486; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 60-61(illus.), 86.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (CI)
Date: 1808-1818
Nature: Designed 1808. Completed 1818. £3,600.
Refs: Elevations and plans, 2 signed and dated 6 Sep 1808, sold among Charleville Castle drawings at Christie's,11 Dec 1985, lots 19,20 (illus. in sale catalogue, p.19); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4; J.N. Brewer, Beauties of Ireland (1826), II, 136-7;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 319.

Name: HINE, THOMAS CHAMBERS #
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: Church reopened, 1 Nov 1877, after undergoing alterations designed by T.C. Hine & Son for Countess of Charleville in memory of two last Earls of Charleville and Mr John Bury. Choir separated from nave by low stone screen and raised  by two steps with encaustic tiles which extend into chancel. Front benches of carved oak added to choir.  Caen stone pulpit.  New E window with stained glass by Shrigley & Hunt, Lancaster replaces old 'shapeless' one.  New Caen stone reredos. 3 marble steps between choir and chancel which had been beautified with mural decoations (Christ's epitome of the Law on one side of E window, 10 Commandments on other.  Work carried out by A.P. Sharpe, Great Brunswick St.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 213, 1 Jan 1877, 16;  no. 225, 1 Dec 1877, 378.