Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: 1750ca
Nature: 'The church is an ancient structure, which was enlarged by a grant of £600 from the late Board of First Fruits, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £234 for its further repair.' (Lewis) 'The present building was constructed around 1750, enlarged in 1828 and repaired in 1859, following a fire the previous year.' (Costegalde & Walker)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837),  I, 43;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 247(illus.).

Name: JACKMAN, SAMUEL [1]
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: 1816-1822
Nature: 'Mr Jackman' paid small sums in 1816,1818,1819,1820 and 1822 for work on church.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Church refitted following destruction by fire in spring of 1858.  Opened Jul 1860 and consecrated, 13 Oct 1860, Additions and alterations. include new E window and porch on W side of N transept.
Refs: Signed, undated, drawing in RCB Library, portfolio 16; DB 2, 1 Feb 1860, 204;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 25 (Apr 1858), 497; 2, no. 13 (15 Jul 1860), 350; no. 15, 15 Oct 1860, 435; no. 16 (15 Oct 1860), 435.

Name: LAVERS & BARRAUD *#
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Stained glass E window ordered from London by Robert, 2nd Viscount Lorton in memory of his parents. To cost about £200. Design, 4 Evangelists in 4 lancets, attr. to Francis Philip Barraud by Lawrence.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Feb 1860, 204;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3087/ (last visited, May 2015).

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: 1911;1920
Nature: 1 2-light window (Resurrection); 2 single-light windows (Faith; Patience)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 72

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ARDCARNE, CHURCH OF ST BEAIDH (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 'According to local tradition' Nash involved in alts. to church while building Rockingham. Tower possibly designed by Nash as eyecatcher to be seen from Rockingham.
Refs: Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 166