Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature: New church, with 3-bay nave, single-bay chancel, N robing room, S porch, bellcote on W gable. Unusual 3-light dormer windows in roof. Described by Rowan as 'essentially English'. Originally district curacy in parish of Ardstraw. Consecrated 24 Mar 1858. See Clarke & Bell. Built and endowed by Marquess of Abercorn.
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawings in RCB Library, portfolio 10; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no 25. (April 1858), 497;   Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 136; illus. in  Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 47, and in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),164.

Name: CLARKE & BELL #
Building: CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1858ca?
Nature: Design for stalls and probably for whole church.
Refs: Undated drawing for stalls in Clarke & Bell volume, Scottish National Monuments Record, Edinburgh (information from David Walker, Dictionary of Scottish Architects)

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. TYRONE, BARONSCOURT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1885p
Nature: Monument to 1st Duke of Abercorn (d.1885) in form of large Celtic cross 'by Walter G. Doolin'
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 136;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),164.