Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, LISSADELL, CHURCH (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. SLIGO, LISSADELL, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1855-58
Nature: Rebuilding. Early English. 5-bay nave with N aisle, chancel, tower & spire, S porch Church dedicated 4 Jun 1858. Contractor: Lynn, Sligo. 11 windows by Warrington installed.  CErected by Ecclesiastical commissioners at cost thought to be about £3,200. (According to Costegalde & Walker, this was a remodelling of a church built and endowed by Sir Robert Gore-Booth of Lissadell House in the early 1840s.)
Refs: Signed undated design for new church, inscr. with 2 dates of dedication, viz. 7 Jun 1841 and 4 Jun 1858, in RCB Library, portfolio 16; B 13, 18 Aug 1855, 395; 15, 5 Dec 1857, 706;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 27, 548,;  Morning Chronicle, 17 Jun 1858 (information from Frank Keohane, Mar 2010); Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 248 (illus.).

Name: WARRINGTON, WILLIAM *#
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).

Name: RHIND, ETHEL *
Building: CO. SLIGO, LISSADELL, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1907
Nature: 2-light window, 'Harmony' and 'Fortitude'.
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 73

Name: PURSER, SARAH HENRIETTA *
Building: CO. SLIGO, LISSADELL, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1907
Nature: Window, 'Harmony & Fortitude', for Lady Georgina Gore-Booth.
Refs: John O'Grady, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser(1996), 251