Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, KILLESHANDRA, CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET (RC)

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLESHANDRA, CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET (RC)
Date: 1862
Nature: New church in French Gothic style, with tower and spire, built of local stone with limestone dressings; 'considerable progress reported by Oct 1862. Clerk of Works: J. Higgins. No builder employed. Stained glass by Mssrs. Casey, Dublin.
Refs: Watercolour perspective view (for reproduction in IB? and B) in NLI (bought Mealy's Auctioneers, Dec 2008, Lot 1101);  DB 4, 1 Oct 1862, 255(illus.); B 16, 18 Sep 1858, 638; 20, 15 Nov 1862, 822(illus.); Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 694-695(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 376.

Name: CASEY, JOHN *
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLESHANDRA, CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET (RC)
Date: 1862
Nature: Stained-glass east window. (Mulligan gives date of 1858 to this window, i.e. predating church?).
Refs: DB 4, 1 Oct 1862, 255(illus.); B 16, 18 Sep 1858, 638; 20, 15 Nov 1862, 822(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 376.

Name: DONNELLY, JAMES [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLESHANDRA, CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET (RC)
Date: 1935
Nature: Repairs, improvements.
Refs: IB 77, 10 Aug 1935, 728