Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, FINVOY, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, FINVOY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1810
Nature: 'The present church was erected on the site of the original structure, by aid of a gift of £200 and a loan of £400 from the late Board of First Fruits; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £129 for its repair.'
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 631.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, FINVOY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1864
Nature: New sittings. Contractor: Robert & William Moore.
Refs: Signed drawings, also signed by contractors, Dec 1864, in RCB Library, portfolio 7

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, FINVOY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: New rectory. FS laid by Mrs Lyle, Portstewart House, 7 May 1880.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 22, no. 20, 15 May 1880, 395,400.

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, FINVOY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1898-9
Nature: Additions and alterations, including replacement of flat ceiling with open pitch-pine roof, new chancel, vestry and heating chamber, new cathedral glass in windows.   New chancel and Moore memorial window consecrated 7 Sep 1899.
Refs: Irish Times, 15 Sep 1899; IB 41, l Oct 1899, 141; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 85,130; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in North Antrim (UAHS, 1972), 50.