Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, FEIGHCULLEN, CHURCH (CI)

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. KILDARE, FEIGHCULLEN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1829
Nature: New church; 'a small but handsome structure, erected by a gift of £830 and a loan of £277 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1829, and for its repair a grant of £248 has been recently made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' (Lewis).
Refs: M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 146,147(illus.); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 617