Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, RAMELTON, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH)

Name: NUGENT, PATRICK [2]
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RAMELTON, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH)
Date: 1822-25
Nature: New church.  Foundation stone laid 1822.  Consecrated 1825.  Rev. C.H. Ussher, rector, contributed £900.
Refs: Inscription on plaque on tower: 'Foundation stone laid 1822. Built by P. Nugent, architect' (information from David Lawrence, Dec 2010; Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 38: Parishes of Co. Donegal I, 1833-5 (1997), 88, give dateand name of architect wrongly);  J.B. Leslie, Raphoe Clergy and Parishes (1940), 69;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 463 (also gives name of architect wrongly); F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 
179(illus.);  exterior of church also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),  175.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RAMELTON, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH)
Date: 1856
Nature: Addition of single-bay chancel and robing room; new roof.
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated 1856, in RCB Library, portfolio 25; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt. 1, 179(illus.)

Name: HUNTER, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RAMELTON, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH)
Date: 1869
Nature: Survey plan of existing seating.
Refs: Signed drawing, dated Jan 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 25

Name: FERGUSON, JOHN GUY
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RAMELTON, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH)
Date: 1870
Nature: Proposed reseating.
Refs: Signed drawing, dated Aug 1870, in RCB Library, portfolio 25