Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, KILMACRENNAN (OR KILMACRENAN), CHURCH OF ST FINIAN & ST MARK (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DONEGAL, KILMACRENNAN (OR KILMACRENAN), CHURCH OF ST FINIAN & ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1840-46
Nature: New church for Rev. A. Hastings. 'A strong little church in a chunky Gothic idiom…almost certainly to designs by Joseph Welland' (Rowan). Completed 1846. Cost: £1220.8s.9d.
Refs: Unsigned plans, dated 1840, in RCB Library, portfolio 25; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 335;  F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 157(illus.);  exterior also illus. in  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 175.