Name: |
NORTON, JOHN # |
Building: |
CO. WICKLOW, ENNISKERRY, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, POWERSCOURT PARISH) |
Date: |
1857-63 |
Nature: |
New church to hold 350, given to 7th Vct Powerscourt as a coming of age present by his mother Elizabeth, Marchioness of Londonderry, who bore entire cost of £3,411.9s.2d. FS laid by Lord Powersscourt Sep or Oct 1857. Consecrated 15 Sep 1863. Copper spire substituted for a slate one. Church criticised for being too small.
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Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 19 (Oct 1857), 377; DB 5, 15 Sep 1863, 157; Irish Times, 17 Sep 1863; A.E. Stokes, Parish of Clonderlaw, 15 (which says that building accounts are in NLI); Elizabeth Batt, The Moncks of Charleville House (1979), 119.
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