Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1726-1732p
Nature: Decision to build new church made at vestry meeting of 18 Jul 1726.  Building came to an end in 1732 because of lack of funds. Arthur Price (Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1730-34) advanced loan of £100 to continue work. Completed building cost £1,168. 18s. 6d.
Refs: Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 219.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1796ca
Nature: Monument to Bagnel Gurly (d.1796).
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 47(illus.)

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1828
Nature: Monument to Jane, wife of Rev. George Vernon.
Refs: Alto-relievo forming part of monument exh. RHA 1828, no. 350 (?and 1829, no. 284); H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56

Name: LYNCH, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1828?
Nature: JL paid £5, 1830, for plans and estimates for repairs (but T.A. Cobden asked to reconstruct church instead).
Refs: Vestry book (information from Rev. Thomas McDonnell).

Name: COBDEN, THOMAS ALFRED
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1829-1830;1833
Nature: Reconstruction of church. Plans selected Jan 1829. Church reopened Dec 1830. Tower and spire added 1833; 'a modern structure, with a beauiful spire terminating at an elevation of 195 feet, having a massive gilt cross presented by the ladies of Carlow' (Lewis)
Refs:  RA 1835, no. 1009; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 262; P.J. Brophy 'Braganza - its architect and first owner' in Carloviana Vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan 1949), 123;  Thomas McDonnell, 'Thomas A. Cobden, 1794-1842:  an architect in Co. Carlow', Carlow History and Society (Dublin, 2008), 623-625(illus.);  exterior illus. in  Clergy of Cashel, Emly and Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 215;  exterior and interior illus. in  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 349.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1863
Nature: Refitted and repewed.
Refs: DB 5, 15 Apr 1863, 69