Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1819
Nature: New church built 1819 at cost of £1,569.4s.7¼d. WF corresponds with Primate Beresford about it. Did he design it?
Refs: NLI, special list 155 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy & Parishes  (1911), 377;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),  128.


Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1866-69
Nature: Enlargement. Addition of S. transept,porch and gallery. (Proposed spire not executed). Chancel completed to modified design and N transept added after death of WJB by Sherry & Hughes. 3-light window by EarlEy & Powells opend in S transept. Reopened, , Jun? 1869. Consecrated 1 Sep 1869. Contractor: James Hughes.
Refs: Contract drawings for S. transept, porch and gallery, signed by Barre, Mar 1866, and by James Hughes, Mar 1867, and for chancel, N. transept and robing room, signed Sherry & Hughes 1868, and James Hughes, Jul 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 2B; DB 3, 1 Jun 1861, 533; 7, 15 May 1865, 82-3; IB 9, 15 Jan 1867, 25; 10, 1 May 1868, 117; 11,15 Dec 1869, 285; Irish Churchman, 2, no. 5, 19 Jun 1869, 64;  Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 44,Pl.21; J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy, 377

Name: SHERRY, CHARLES ACTON
Building: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1866-69
Nature: Enlargement. Chancel completed to modified design and N transept added by Sherry & Hughes after Barre's death. Consecrated 1 Sep 1869. Contractor: James Hughes.
Refs: Contract drawings for S. transept, porch and gallery, signed by Barre, Mar 1866, and by James Hughes, Mar 1867, and for chancel, N. transept and robing room, signed Sherry & Hughes 1868, and James Hughes, Jul 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 2B; DB 3, 1 Jun 1861, 533; 7, 15 May 1865, 82-3; IB 9, 15 Jan 1867, 25; 10, 1 May 1868, 117; 11,15 Dec 1869, 285; Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 44,Pl.21; J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy, 377; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 433

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1869
Nature: 3-light window in S transept (the Maries of Scripture). Gift of Rev. W. Hardman.
Refs: Irish Churchman 2, no. 5, 19 Jun 1869, 65;  see Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3395/ (last visited, Feb 2017), which says that window was erected in memory of Charlotte, sife of James Sloane.