Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ANNAGHMORE (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS (CI)

Name: MCCLEMENTS, R. *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ANNAGHMORE (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS (CI)
Date:
Nature: First World War memorial.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 80.


Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ANNAGHMORE (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS (CI)
Date: 1855-1861a
Nature: Proposed new district church: cruciform with vestry in angle of chancel and S transept. Entrance porch at W end. Traceried E window. Tenders invited, Feb 1855;  proposal of Richard Cherry, Loughgall, accepted.  Consecrated, 7 Jul 1861.
Refs: Signed undated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 2A;  Armagh Guardian, 15 Feb,1 Jun 1855; 19 Jul 1861;   B 13, 3 Mar 1855, 105;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 80;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 120.

Name: GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ANNAGHMORE (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS (CI)
Date: 1898;1906p
Nature: E window in memory of Charles Ensor of Ardress. Also 2 lancets in N wall of chancel (Christ as Good Shepherd, Christ blessing children) in memory of Rev. Ashleigh Thorpe (d.1906).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/15797/ (last visited, Mar 2014).

Name: DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ANNAGHMORE (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS (CI)
Date: 1934
Nature: Triple light stained glass window in N transept (Christ and Evangelists) in memory of David & Fanny Wilson, 1934. Signed Douglas, Sons, & Co. Dedicated, Aug 1934, by Dean of Armagh.
Refs: Publicity brochure of W.J. Douglas & Sons, post 1935, citing Belfast Telegraph, Aug 1934;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3406/ (last visited, Feb 2014).