Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1838-41.
Nature: New church on site of earlier one. Opened and consecrated, 23 Oct 1841. Attributed to Frederick Darley[2] by O'Brien.
Refs: Clergy of Cashel, Emly and Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 272-(illus.),273;   Colm O'Brien,'The churches of Frederick Darley Jnr:  identification and attribution', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 16 (2013), 89.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860-62
Nature: Very extensive alterations and improvements, including addition of tower and spire at W end and robing room to N. Quantities prepared Nov 1860. 'Just reopened' in Oct 1862. Chancel floor in Mar's encaustic tiles. Fund for works supplied through D.W. Pack Beresford, MP.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), dated 1861, in RCB Library, portfolio 21; IAA, PKS A03 (Nov 1860, p.39v);  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 4, no. 40 (15 Oct 1862), 597.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1879
Nature: New stone pulpit and reading desk used for first time, Nov 1879.  Former gift of widow of Rev. Edward Nkxon, latter gift of her daughter Mrs Eckersell.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p. 12.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1888
Nature: Church reopened with special service, Dec 1888, after improvements connected with erection of new roof, old one having become highly dangerous.
Refs: Irish Times, 19 Dec 1888.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. CARLOW, LORUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1933
Nature: Stained-glass window (Knight in Armour) attr. to AEC
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 35