Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English stained-glass artist, born in 1796, who founded a stained-glass studio in London in 1832.   He died in 1869;  the studio, was carried on by his son, James Perry Warrington (1818/19-1892). (1)  Warrington and  his studio made a number of stained-glass windows for Irish churches.

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(1) Sussex Parish Churches, http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/spc_V31/architects-and-artists/322-architects-and-artists-w-x-y-z (last visited, Aug 2014).


4 work entries listed in chronological order for WARRINGTON, WILLIAM *#


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Building: CO. KILKENNY, KELLS, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date:
Nature: Stained glass windo win S wall of nave (Christ calming the Storm).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3013/ (last visited, Dec 2016).

Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL CLOSE, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1849;1852;1854
Nature: Cathedral 'has been further ornamented by a chaste and well designed stained window, placed in the east of the building, at the expense of His Grace the Lord Primate'. (Replaced 1903ca by window by Heaton, Butler & Bayne.) Also 2 windows in N wall by William Warrington & Son: triple lancet (Visiting the Poor, Good Samaritan, Visiting the Sick) in memory of William Lodge Kidd, 1852;  triple lancet (Moses & Jethro, Moses, Samuel anointing David) in memory of William and Samuel Blacker, 1854.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 19 Nov 1849;  Ecclesiologist 16 (1855), 13 (reference supplied by Dr David Lawrence, Gladestry, Powys, Jul 2012);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 104;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/15808/ (last visited, Aug 2014)

Building: CO. SLIGO, LISSADELL, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1857
Nature: 'Eleven windows by Mr Warrington, the East window representing St Peter raising Dorcas, have been placed in the church.'
Refs: B 15, 5 Dec 1857, 706;  E window illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3089/ (last visited 2 Oct 2008).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, ST ANN'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860p
Nature: Stained glass windows: Women  of the Bible in apse ( in memory of Felicia Hemans, poet, d. 1860);  Seven Parables on N side of nave  (Knox family memorial, 1861).
Refs: Illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2957/ (last visited, Oct 2013);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 470.