Selected: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI) |
Date: | 1828 |
Nature: | New church and glebe house built for £553.16s. and £738.8s respectively. |
Refs: | J.B. Leslie, Raphoe Clergy and Parishes (1940), 71; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI) |
Date: | 1875-76 |
Nature: | Repairs to walls, new flooring, reseating, new pulpit, reading desk and communion railings, new vesty outside. Funds being sought, Nov 1875. Congregation only 48 persons. Church reopened Apr 1876. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 198, 23 Nov 1875, 271; 18, no. 203, 25 Apr 1876, 117. |
Name: | CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI) |
Date: | 1890 |
Nature: | New chancel and buttresses |
Refs: | Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 85,129 (Pl. 141); Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171. |
Name: | CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI) |
Date: | 1913-14 |
Nature: | New tower & spire, 'recently completed' in Jan 1915. Tower gift of Henry Musgrave, DL. Spire of reinforced concrete. Contractor: James McClay, Strabane. |
Refs: |
IB 55, 24 May 1913, 351; 57, 30 Jan 1915, 49(illus.); Building News 108, 5 Feb 1915, 172; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 306; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171. |