Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, BELLAGHY, CHURCH OF ST TOIT (CI, BALLYSCULLION PARISH)

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [1]
Building: CO. DERRY, BELLAGHY, CHURCH OF ST TOIT (CI, BALLYSCULLION PARISH)
Date: 1794
Nature: New church on site of one built 1625. Spire built at expense of Frederick Hervey, Earl Bishop of Derry. Attr. by Rankin to MS on basis of similarity to Tamlaghtfinlagan.
Refs: P. Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 39-40(illus.);  illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 44, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 164.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, BELLAGHY, CHURCH OF ST TOIT (CI, BALLYSCULLION PARISH)
Date: 1837a
Nature: Proposed N aisle. (Not built)
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 165; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 138

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DERRY, BELLAGHY, CHURCH OF ST TOIT (CI, BALLYSCULLION PARISH)
Date: 1861
Nature: Tenders required for sundry works and repairs 'according to specifications, &c., by the architects to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners'.
Refs: DB 3, 1 Apr 1861, 472

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DERRY, BELLAGHY, CHURCH OF ST TOIT (CI, BALLYSCULLION PARISH)
Date: 1868
Nature: New robing room, sittings and stove. Contractor: GeorgeTipping.
Refs: Signed drawing, also signed by contractor, Dec 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 10