Selected: CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Name: | MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1] |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1767?-1772 |
Nature: | 'His Lordship [Charles, 6th Earl of Drogheda]... pulled down the old Church, which stood near the monastery, on the right of the east front; and rebuilt it in a neat gothic style at the other end of the town.'(Anthol. Hib.). Described as 'modern built with steeple' in Traveller's New Guide (cf. Lewis who describes it as 'a venerable structure with a square tower'). Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer. |
Refs: | Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 114; The Traveller’s new guide through Ireland (1815), 118; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 104-5(illus.); exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. |
Name: | ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | Works at same? for Ecclesiastical Commisisoners. |
Refs: | B 17, 17 Sep 1859, 615 |
Name: | CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST * |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1918 |
Nature: | Stained-glass window (Knight with angel) |
Refs: |
Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 60; illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/location/building/3145/ (last visited 30 Oct 2008); also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. |