Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, BRUFF, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, BRUFF, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1776
Nature: New church, on site of earlier one. 'The church, a large edifice in the early English style, with a tower surmounted by a lofty octagonal spire of stone, contains an ancient monument of the Hartstonge family rather in a neglected condition…'(Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 227; Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25, 430

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. LIMERICK, BRUFF, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1857
Nature: New church, incorporating existing tower and spire, with 3-bay nave, chancel & vestry to S. Dedicated 30 Jul 1859.
Refs: Plan, elevations, signed J. Welland and stamped by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 27 Apr 1857, also appended sketch and measurement by Dan Kirby, 15 Apr 1857, in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH); also signed drawing(s) for new church , inscr with date of dedication, in RCB Library, portfolio 22

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. LIMERICK, BRUFF, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1913
Nature: Good Shepherd window attr. to AEC
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 63