Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1843-46;1850
Nature: New church, 107 x 44½ ft., with 5-bay nave, 1-bay chancel flanked by S porch and N robing room. Clasping buttresses, lancet windows, bellcote on W gable. Further designs, 1844, for addition of belltower and W gallery, 1844. Church consecrated 31 Mar 1846. Said to have cost £4000. £2536 granted by Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Tower added 1850 at cost of about £1000. (Organ formely in Chapel Royal, Dublin).
Refs: Drawings, signed and dated Dec 1843 and 1844, in RCB Library, portfolio 17; J.B. Leslie, Ferns Clergy and Parishes (1936), 154; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 233, Pls. 129-13;  exterior illus. in  Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008),440;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 345.


Name: SHARP, ALFRED PETER *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1876-77
Nature: New stone pulpit, designed by James Franklin Fuller, 1876. Also reading desk, 1877.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 213, 1 Jan 1877, 20.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1876-77
Nature: JFF plans and supervises 'extensive improvements': hot water heating system; cathedral glass in S windows; Caen stone pulpit and reading desk (from workshop of AP Sharp, Dublin); encaustic tiling on platform berween pulpit and reading desk; reredos of majolica tiling; new chancel rail.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 211, 24 Nov 1876, 363.; 19, no. 216, 1 Apr 1877, 117-18.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Repewing in pitch pine.
Refs: Architect 54, 19 Sep 1890, suppl. p.2