Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, SION MILLS, CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD (CI)

Name: UNSWORTH, WILLIAM FREDERICK #
Building: CO. TYRONE, SION MILLS, CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD (CI)
Date: 1907-1909
Nature: Italianate Romanesque church by Unsworth, Son & Triggs modelled on a church at Pistoia. Local stone with Bath stone dressings. Tenders invited Jul 1907. Opened and dedicated by Bishop of Derry, 15 May 1909.. Contractor: Ballantine Ltd, Derry. Marble work by E. Luscombe & Sons, Exeter. Electrical fittings by Will. Fine & Co.  Door furniture by Thomas Elsey, London. Cost:over £6000.
Refs: IB 49, 27 Jul 1907, 526; 51, 29 May 1909, 350;  Irish Times, 31 May 1909;   Architectural Review 28, November 1910, 220-224(illus.);  Charles Nicholson & Charles Spooner, Recent English Church Architecture (1910), 142-145; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 486-7; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 106(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),