Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LISNADILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LISNADILL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1772
Nature: 'The church is a spacious edifice in the later English style, with a square embattled tower erected ny Primate Robinson in 1772, and has the arms of the founder over the entrance.'(Lewis).  'Probably the best-preserved of Cooley's 'standard designs' for Archbishop Robinson...almost exactly as in Cooley's "Design No. 9"...'(Mulligan).
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 286;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 409-10;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 127.