Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1828
Nature: New church and glebe house built for £553.16s. and £738.8s respectively.
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Raphoe Clergy and Parishes (1940), 71; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1875-76
Nature: Repairs to walls, new flooring, reseating, new pulpit, reading desk and communion railings, new vesty outside.  Funds being sought, Nov 1875. Congregation  only 48 persons. Church reopened Apr 1876.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 198, 23 Nov 1875, 271; 18, no. 203, 25 Apr 1876, 117.

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: New chancel and buttresses
Refs: Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 85,129 (Pl. 141); Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171.

Name: CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GLENCOLUMBKILLE, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1913-14
Nature: New tower & spire, 'recently completed' in Jan 1915. Tower gift of Henry Musgrave, DL.  Spire of reinforced concrete. Contractor: James McClay, Strabane.
Refs: IB 55, 24 May 1913, 351; 57, 30 Jan 1915, 49(illus.); Building News 108, 5 Feb 1915, 172; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 306; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 141(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171.