Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, DRIMOLEAGUE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, DRIMOLEAGUE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1858a
Nature: New church on new site consisting of nave, N transept, chancel with N porch and robing room. Early English. Capable of holding 260 persons.  Chancel window by 'an eminent English firm'. Fittings from French of Bolton-le-Moors'. 'Architect' (i.e., presumably, builder) Joseph Bryan, Dunmanway. Stained glass window in chancel put in by incumbent, Rev. M.L. Connor. New church consecrated, 10 Sep 1858.
Refs: Signed, undated drawings in Representative Church Body Library, portfolio 8, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/1792-1805 ; B 16, 2 Oct 1858, 665;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 31 (Oct 1858), 622.