Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1833-38
Nature: New church with square tower;  'begun in 1833 and probably by William Farrell' (Mulligan).
Refs: Slater's Irish Directory (1846);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 147-8;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 240(illus.).


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1848p
Nature: Neoclassical tablet monument to Rev. Charles Claudius Beresford (d. 1848).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 148

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1865-67
Nature: Proposed robing room, E window, pulpit, reading desk, chancel rail, 1865 (Contractor: John Jackson). Proposed S transept with porch at SE corner, 1866 (Contractor: James Scanlon). Proposed new church, 1867 (Contractor: Henry Sharpe)
Refs: Signed drawings, inscr. with date of different contracts, in RCB Library, portfolio 20;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 148.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1877
Nature: Church consecrated, 7 Nov 1877.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 225, 1 Dec 1877, 378

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1882
Nature: Bailieborough church reopened on Sunday last after extensivealterations and improvements. Entrance porch ‘enlarged by the removal of an unsighly structure and the cutting away of a large portion of masonry’. Flags replaced by ‘plain and neat tiling’, tower restored. New pitch pine pews. New open roof of pitch pine. Part of
gallery which overhung two windows has been removed. E window raised 2 feet. Chancl enlarged and ornamented with encaustic tiling. Pulpit and reading desk moved.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 156, 23 Dec 1882, 963.

Name: WATSON, JAMES, & CO. *
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1906
Nature: Celtic-patterned stained glass window in memory of Sir John Young, baron Lisgar (d. 1876), 1906.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 148.


Name: COLEMAN, J. [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, BAILIEBOROUGH, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, BAILIEBOROUGH ALIAS MOYBOLOGUE PARISH)
Date: 1926
Nature: Extension.
Refs: IB 68, 15 May 1926, 394