Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767
Nature: 'New church, 'erected by Primate Robinson, in 1767, during the incumbency of the Rev. C.W. Congreave'.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 244;  illus. in  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 126.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1785
Nature: Addition of tower to church of 1767.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 244;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 126(illus.).

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1808
Nature: Addition of timber spire for 2nd Earl of Caledon 'by means of a request from his late father'(Lewis). , Replaced by stone facsimile in 1830.
Refs: PRONI D2433/10 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes  (1911), 152-4;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 159; Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 144(illus.).

Name: BOYD, JAMES [3]
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1809a
Nature: JB executant architect? (according to Rowan, spire was designed by Nash). For 2nd Earl of Caledon.
Refs: Payment to JB for spire, 1809, in Ledger of 1st & 2nd Earls of Caledon, PRONI, D2433/A/4/12/1 (see PRONI E-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx , last visited Nov 2011).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1848
Nature: New lancet windows replacing round-headed ones, new robing room, new sittings.
Refs: Signed, undated drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 2A; J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes  (1911), 52-4

Name: SHARP, ALFRED PETER *
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Pulpit & prayer desk, for 4th Earl of Caledon, executed by APS for Thomas Drew.
Refs: IB 32, 1 Jan 1890, 12

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Pulpit & prayer desk, for Lord Caledon, executed by A.P. Sharp, 17 Great Brunswick St, Dublin..
Refs: IB 32, 1 Jan 1890, 12; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 160 (which says reredos was also designed by TD); J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 352, gives reredos only to TD.