Selected: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1856 |
Nature: | Considerably enlarged. Reopened, 20 Jul 1856. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette I, No. 5 (Aug 1856), 85. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1861 |
Nature: | Proposed new church ? (New church not built until 1870-71 to designs by J.E. Rogers.) |
Refs: | Ground plan, S & E elevations, signed and dated 26 Jan 1861, in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH) |
Name: | O'CONNOR, MICHAEL * |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | Stained glass E window (reinstated after rebuilding of church, 1869-70) |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 445 |
Name: | ROGERS, JAMES EDWARD [2] |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1869-1871 |
Nature: | New church in 13th cent. Gothic style, retaining tower of old church (but Leslie says new tower and spire were built 'soon afterwards'). To cost about £5,400. Contractor: John Collen, Portadown.. Memorial stone laid by Duke of Abercorn, 8? Oct 1870. Consecrated 20 Oct 1871. Work supervised by William Hunter. |
Refs: | Contract drawing signed by JER, 1869, and J. Collen, May 1870, in RCB 10; IB 12, 15 Oct 1870, 242; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 445; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 71(illus.). |
Name: | WAILES, WILLIAM *# |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1877 |
Nature: | Stained-glass window (The Great Physician) in memory of Henry Thompson by Wailes & Co.. Given by Masonic Lodge. |
Refs: |
B 35, 1 Sep 1877, 892 (information from David Lawrence, Gladestry, Powys, Jan 2011). |
Name: | O'CONNOR & TAYLOR *# |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI, DRUMRAGH PARISH) |
Date: | 1882 |
Nature: | Richly painted, window from studio of Mr Taylor, Berners St, has been presented to church by Masonic Lodge 332 in memory of Brother Francis John West MD. Subject: Good Samaritan. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 140, 2 Sep 1882, 615; illus. in Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3364/ (last visited, Mar 2017). |