Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)

Name: SHEANE, JAMES
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1812
Nature: Datestone in tower inscr. 'Architect James Sheane 1812'.
Refs: Information from N.W. English (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).

Name: ELSAM, RICHARD #
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1813
Nature: RE's plans approved by Bishop.
Refs: NLI, MS 8821 (5) 115 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  illus. in Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 161.


Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1813ca
Nature: Porch
Refs: NLI MS 8821/(5)115

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1879-1880
Nature: Restoration. Deane & Son supply 2 sets of plans, one costing about £900, the other about £1100. . Improvements to include 'chancelizing of E end of church, bringing down organ, repewing, new vestry, new pulpit, hot water under-floor heating, retiling of floor, repewing, new vestry, new pulpit. Builder: G.F. Tyrrell. Reopened 1880.
Refs: IB 21,15 Oct 1879, 323; 22, 1,15 Mar 1880, 72,87;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 241, 1 Apr 1879, 493;   B 37, 25 Oct 1879, 1182.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM (SIR)
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1879-1880
Nature: Restoration: re-pewing, new vestry, new pulpit, under floor heating and new floor tiling. Church reopened, 10 Mar 1880.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 243. 1 Jun 1879, 555; 22, no. 9, 28 Feb 1880, 183;  IB 21, 15 Oct 1879, 323; 22, 15 Mar 1880, 87; B 37, ? Oct 1879, 1182

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1907
Nature: Painting and renovation.
Refs: Drawings & specifications, 1907, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 82/49.26

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: 1919
Nature: Stained-glass window ('I will give thee a crown of life')
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 74

Name: MCALLISTER, EDWARD
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, CHURCH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CRONAN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Design for new, richly traceried E window.
Refs: Signed, undated drawing in RCB Library, portfolio 19