Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)
Date: 1800ca
Nature: 'The church, which was erected soon after the separation of the parish [in 1795], is a small neat edifice with a square tower;  the late Board of First Fruits gave £500, in 1800 towards its erection.'(Lewis)  Erected under the direction of Rev. Francis Gouldsbury (rector, 1798-1803, who also built glebe house, 1801) at cost of £500 (OS Memoirs).
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 5: Parishes of Co. Tyrone 1 (1990), 131;  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 244;  Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt 1, 87(illus.).

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)
Date: 1863
Nature: New sittings. Contractor: John Tallon.
Refs: Signed drawings, also signed by contractor, Jun 1863, in RCB Library, portfolio 10A

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)
Date: 1869a;1872a
Nature: Church reopened after repairs, 1869.  Reopened (again?) after addition of chancel and robing room and installation of five new windows in nave, Easter Day, 1872. Architect for later work, W.H. Lynn.

Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 11, no. 126, 20 Nov 1869, 258; 14, no. 155, 23 Apr 1872, 87.

Name: BUCHANAN, ROBERT ECCLES
Building: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)
Date: 1916
Nature: Additions
Refs: IB 58, 27 May 1916, 235

Name: REID, JAMES
Building: CO. TYRONE, DRUMQUIN, CHURCH (CI, LANGFIELD UPPER PARISH)
Date: 1916
Nature: Tenders invited for carrying out alts. & imps.
Refs: IB 58, 12 Feb 1916, 73