Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, CASTLEBELLINGHAM, CHURCH (CI, KILSARAN PARISH)

Name: NICHOLLS, AUSTIN
Building: CO. LOUTH, CASTLEBELLINGHAM, CHURCH (CI, KILSARAN PARISH)
Date: 1821-23
Nature: Enlargement of chancel, also repairing and painting of church.  AN paid total of £72-14s-2d for latter in 1821-1823.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane);  J.B. Leslie, History of Kilsaran (1908), 57.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. LOUTH, CASTLEBELLINGHAM, CHURCH (CI, KILSARAN PARISH)
Date: 1851-52
Nature: Remodelling to form structure with 3 bay nave, transepts chancel and robing room. W tower of former church retained, also some fabric incorporated in 2 transepts.
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated 12 May 1851, in RCB Library,portfolio 2B; also unsigned plan and elevations, inscr. as approved by Rev. R.L.P. McClintock, rector, 23 April 1851, and by the Archbishop of Armagh, 25 Feb 1851 in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); J.B. Leslie, History of Kilsaran (1908), 57(illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 185 (which states wrongly that church is by Welland & Gillespie);  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 124.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. LOUTH, CASTLEBELLINGHAM, CHURCH (CI, KILSARAN PARISH)
Date: 1860
Nature: Various works to be executed 'according to plans furnished by the Ecclesiastical Commissoners' architects'.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Mar 1860, 58

Name: JERVOIS, WILLIAM SAMPSON
Building: CO. LOUTH, CASTLEBELLINGHAM, CHURCH (CI, KILSARAN PARISH)
Date: 1920
Nature: Improvements.
Refs: IB 62, 24 Apr 1920, 305