Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1815-17
Nature: New cruciform church erected 1815 with loan of £1,200 from Board of First Fruits. Date of 1816 on plaque on tower probably date of completion.  Tower still unfinished in 1835. Very large pews.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 15, 4; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 581;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 266;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 74, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 168.


Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1858?
Nature: Proposed repewing. Church reopend after repairs and improvements, Mar 1858.
Refs: Undated drawing, initialled JW, in RCB Library, portfolio 10;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 25 (Apr 1858), 497.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 266