Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, GORESBRIDGE, CHURCH (CI, GRANGE SYLVAE PARISH)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GORESBRIDGE, CHURCH (CI, GRANGE SYLVAE PARISH)
Date: 1810-11
Nature: Designed by FJ.Cost: 849, of which £553 was gift of Board of First Fruits and £110 came from subscriptions.
Refs: J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 476;  Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012),147(illus.),148.

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GORESBRIDGE, CHURCH (CI, GRANGE SYLVAE PARISH)
Date: 1814p
Nature: Monument to Arthur Gore with military trophies and relief of battle of Bergen-op-Zoom.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GORESBRIDGE, CHURCH (CI, GRANGE SYLVAE PARISH)
Date: 1876
Nature: Church reopened, 4 Apr 1876, after removal of all interior woodwork and old pews. 'Open benches have replaced square pews, a neat pulpit on a stone base has been erected, and a very nice prayer desk put up.'  Architect: Richard Langrishe (diocesan architect).  Contractor: William Aylward, builder, Bagenalstown.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 203, 25 Apr 1876, 121.