Selected: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Name: | MACK, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1775p |
Nature: | Monument to Lady Catherine Somerville (d. 1775) |
Refs: | Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1797 |
Nature: | Tower erected by Sir James Quayle Somerville. |
Refs: |
Inscription on plaque above door: Sir James Quayle Somerville Baronet Built this Steeple Anno Domini 1797. |
Name: | THEED, WILLIAM (THE YOUNGER)*# |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1821p;1831p;1843p |
Nature: | Monuments to members of the Somerville family. Roscoe lists three monuments - to Mary Somerville (d. 1821), Sir Marcus Somerville (d. 1831) and Lady Maria Harriet Somerville (d.1843) - whereas Potterton and Casey & Rowan mention only the latter two. |
Refs: | Ingrid Roscoe, ed., A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851 (Yale University Press, 2009), 1238; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 84; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341. |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1855p |
Nature: | Memorial to Lt. William Somerville (d. 1855). |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55 |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1855p |
Nature: | Memorial to Anna Somerville (d. 1855). |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'The church is a neat edifice with a tower, erected about 80 years since, for the repair s of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners lately granted £134'(Lewis). According to Casey & Rowan church 'begun in the later C18 and remodelled in the mid-C19'. |
Refs: |
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837),, II, 38; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 318. |