Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, RATHDOWNEY, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LAOIS, RATHDOWNEY, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (CI)
Date: 1815
Nature: 'The church, towards the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £1000 in 1815, is a handsome edifice in the later English style, with a well proportioned spire.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 494;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 343.

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. LAOIS, RATHDOWNEY, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: RL prepares plans for enlargement and improvement
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 216, 1 Apr 1877, 117.