Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LONGFORD, AUGHNACLIFFE, CHURCH OF ST THOMAS (CI, PARISH OF COLUMBKILLE)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LONGFORD, AUGHNACLIFFE, CHURCH OF ST THOMAS (CI, PARISH OF COLUMBKILLE)
Date: 1829
Nature: 'The church  stands nearly in the centre of the parish, and is in good repair,and ornamented with minarets:  it was erected in 1829, by aid of a gift of £830 from the late Board of First Fruits.'(Lewis).
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 443;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 239.

Name: SKIPTON, JOHN GERVAIS
Building: CO. LONGFORD, AUGHNACLIFFE, CHURCH OF ST THOMAS (CI, PARISH OF COLUMBKILLE)
Date: 1903
Nature: Removal of plaster ceiling and replacement with pitch pine ceiling; rmodelling of interior fittings and furniture.
Refs: RCB Library, Register of Consent to changes, 1906, 5/97 (information from Duncan Scarlett, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Mar 2011).