Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, KILBIXY, CHURCH (CI)
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, KILBIXY, CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1798-99 |
Nature: | New church for Richard Malone, 1st Baron Sunderlin (replacing church described as being in ruins by Charles Vallancey in 1786) . Described as 'beautiful' by Cromwell, with an interior 'characterised by an elegant simplicity', 'ground glass' windows and a pulpit placed on one side of communion table so that all could see.Sunderlin mausoleum also probably designed by JW. |
Refs: |
Thomas Cromwell, Excursions through Ireland (1820), ?; Jennifer Moore, 'A new Wyatt church in Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 10 (2007), 246-263; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 171-2(illus.); exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 317. |
Name: | MAYER & CO. *# |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, KILBIXY, CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1894p |
Nature: | E window in in memory of John Malone, d. 1894. |
Refs: | Signed window and memorial plaque |