Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1817
Nature: Renovation after church was struck by lightning. Detail borrowed from Dublin Castle chapel?.
Refs: NLI, MS. 8821; see also Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 601

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1818
Nature: JP prepares plans for new church; 'work...is to commence immediately, and will, it is expected, be completed within the space of twelve months'.
Refs: Freeman's Journal,  27 Oct 1818.

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1860;1864
Nature: New church started by Oct 1860. Proposed interior improvements including new seating, tower, 'to be carried out by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners', 1864.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Jul,1 Oct 1860, 301,352; 6, 15 May 1864, 99

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1868-1871
Nature: New church. FS laid 24 Jun 1869; consecrated 30 Nov 1871.
Refs: Contract drawing(s), signed and dated 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 19; IB 11, 1 Jul 1869, 153;  Irish Churchman 2, no. 6, 17 Jun 1869, 80;  JRSAI 30 (1900), 441; William Garner, Ennis: Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1981), 12,13,14(illus.); illus. in Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 100.;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2010) , 68,71,  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1878
Nature: New patterned stained glass window put up by Bagot Blood in memory of his brother Bindon Blood.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 226, 1 Jan 1878, 20.

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, BINDON STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMCLIFFE PARISH)
Date: 1882
Nature: Memorial window in N wall of nave (Giving drink to the thirsty;  Good Samaritan) in memory of James Menzies, manager of Provincial Bank  'just completed' in Mar 1882. Attributed to Earley & Co. in Gloine;
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 117, 25 Mar 1882, 196;  Gloine., http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3102/ (last visited, Oct 2016).