Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Name: | SHEEHAN, CORNELIUS * |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1759p |
Nature: | Monument to Gustavus Handcock (d. 1759).'The best that may be said of this memorial is that as a design it is unusual if absurd.'(Potterton). |
Refs: | H. Potterton, 'William Kidwell, sculptor,…and some contemporary mason-sculptors in Ireland', BIGS 15 (Jul-Dec 1972), 102(illus. pl. 20); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 130 |
Name: | SMYTH, EDWARD * |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1794p |
Nature: | Monument to William Handcock (d. 1794) with portrait medallion and mourning female figure. |
Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 80; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 130 |
Name: | RICHARDS, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1822-1826 |
Nature: | New church, replacing one of 1620ca. Plan of Mr Richards adopted, 22 Feb 1822. Eventual cost (in 1827) £2,300. 'The church was rebuilt in 1826, by a grant of £2300 from the late Board of First Fruits; it is a neat edifice, with a square embattled tower; the tower of the old church is still standing, and contains the bell for William's army to cross the river at the siege of Athlone.' (Lewis) |
Refs: |
W. English, citing church minute books, 22 Feb 1822, and 16 Apr 1827; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 88; exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 313. |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1851 |
Nature: | Bluntish memorial. |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55 |
Name: | KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON * |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1863 |
Nature: | Monument to James Robert Moffatt. |
Refs: | Bust exh. RHA 1864, no. 448; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55 |
Name: | CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1869 |
Nature: | New apsidal chancel and N vestry. |
Refs: |
Drawings, signed and dated 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 23; interior ocf chancel illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 313. |