Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, CHURCH (CI, KILCOMMON PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, CHURCH (CI, KILCOMMON PARISH)
Date: 1791
Nature: Decision by vestry to build tower and spire (but tower only built?).
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Ferns Clergy and Parishes (1936), 144.


Name: JOHNSTON, CHRISTMAS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, CHURCH (CI, KILCOMMON PARISH)
Date: 1820-22
Nature: 'Mr Johnston, Architect' (probably Christmas Johnston) paid total of £871.7s. for enlarging church, completing steeple, repairing old part of church and putting pews in order between March 1820 and Dec 1822.  'The church, a neat building,was enlarged in 1820, for which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £700.'(Lewis).
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane);  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 67;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 447;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 345.

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, CHURCH (CI, KILCOMMON PARISH)
Date: 1879
Nature: Adds. & imps. to ancient church. 'Hideous' side gallery removed and all fitting replaced with new ones of pitch pine with yellow pine panelling.  New front put on western gallery, roof reslated, buttress placed at NE angle where settling hsad occurred. Commodious vestry built. E window filled with stained glass by rector, Rev. R.G. Brownrigg. Tenders invited, Jun 1879.  Contractor: Wentworth Taylor, Tinahely. Outlay about £450.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Jun 1879; IB 21, 1 Dec 1879, 373;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p. 11.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, CHURCH (CI, KILCOMMON PARISH)
Date: 1931
Nature: New E window (Christ the Good Shepherd).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 79;  illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/building/building/2895/ (last visited 23 Oct 2008).