Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1812-1816
Nature: Works at same, including tower and spire. (According to Lewis, Board of First Fruits granted loan of £1500 for adding 'lofty tower' and 'elegant spire' in 1812 to church of 1720.)
Refs: NLI A.D.2639(design for 'Loover' windows, bought at Allen & Townsend auction, Dublin, 15/16 Dec 1965, Lot 1049); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 38; W.D. Girvan, R. Oram, A. Rowan, Historic Buildings…in Antrim & Ballymena (UAHS, 1969), 5; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 28(illus.)

Name: FLAXMAN, JOHN *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1817?-1821
Nature: Memorial to 4th Earl of Massereene.  Commissioned in 1817?
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 45,66(illus.);  A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 338-9.

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1865
Nature: Monument to John, 10th Viscount Massereene (d. 1863).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55,69(illus.); exh. Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865, no. 248

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1869
Nature: Adds including new transept?, robing room and additional sittings in angle of Vct. Masserene's pew and chancel.
Refs: Signed drawings for robing room and seating, also signed by contractor George Tipping, Jul 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 6; Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1897), 30

Name: WAILES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1870
Nature: New east window depicting 10 scenes from life of Christ. Stone tracery removed.
Refs: Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1897), 30;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3442/ (last visited, Feb 2015).

Name: HEATON, J.A. *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1890a
Nature: 3-light stained glass window in N wall of nave (St John the Evangelist, Christ, St John the Baptist) given by Viscount Massereene, in memory of his mother. Executant: 'Mr A. Heaton, Bradford Square, London'
Refs: IB 32, 1 Oct 1890, 236; Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1897), 30;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3442/ (last visited, Feb 2015).

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1891
Nature: Organ chamber and internal alts., including addition of chancel. New oak pulpit in memory of Rev. J.G. Holmes.
Refs: Architect 46, 30 Oct 1891, suppl. p.1; IB 34, 15 Aug 1892, 179; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 129; UAHS Antrim & Ballymena list, 5

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1892
Nature: Restoration of transept in progress at expense of Viscount Massereene. Crypt built 7 ft beneath Massereene transept.
Refs: IB 34, 15 Aug 1892, 179; Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1897), 30

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1918
Nature: Repairs to tower and spire.
Refs: IB 60, 12 Oct 1918, 394

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 2 monuments by HH, 'one incorporating a virtuoso carving in brown marble of a full-size violin and bow - plus masonic instruments' (Brett).
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 28