Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, RAMOAN (BALLYCASTLE), CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, RAMOAN (BALLYCASTLE), CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1812
Nature: 'The church is a small edifice, and was rebuilt in 1812, at an expense of £369, a loan from the ... Board [of First Fruits].'
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 483

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, RAMOAN (BALLYCASTLE), CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1849a?
Nature: Enlargement of church of 1812 by addition of N aisle and robing room, W porch, new chancel arch and new windows throughout (Early English paired lancets). Consecrated1849.
Refs: Signed, undated plan and elevation in RCB Library, portfolio 7 (repr. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org) ;  Clergy of Connor (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1993), 179.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, RAMOAN (BALLYCASTLE), CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1862
Nature: Various works to be executed 'according to plans furnished by the Ecclesiastical Commissoners' architects'.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Mar 1862, 58

Name: GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, RAMOAN (BALLYCASTLE), CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1889p
Nature: 2 lancets in S wall of chancel (Christ as Good Shepherd, Crown of Life) in memory of John McIldowney (d. 1889).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3435/ (last visited, Mar 2014).