Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1780
Nature: New church with spire built by rector, Dr Wood Gibson, who, according to Beaufort, paid £750 towards total cost of £1500. (Dr Wood Gibson also built glebe house and curate's house, 'a neat thatched cabin'..)
Refs: MS. journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1787-8;  J.B. Leslie, Derry Clergy and Parishes (1937),141;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 429;  Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt 1, 51(illus.).  

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Proposed new church.(Not executed. Possibly for a proposed chapel-of-ease in the parish?)
Refs: Signed drawing(s) dated Oct 1860 in RCB Library, portfolio 10

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1861
Nature: Tenders invited by Ecclesiastical Commissioners for repairs to same.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Mar 1861, 460

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1867
Nature: New polygonal apse (remodelling of easternmost bay of church) and sittings. Contractor: G. & R. Ferguson.
Refs: Signed drawing(s) inscr with date of contract (Apr 1870) in RCB Library, portfolio 10; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 429

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CAPPAGH (OMAGH), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1917
Nature: Extensive improvements: new roof, marble steps in chancel, repointing of entire church, new sexton's house.
Refs: IB 59, 15 Sep 1917, 473; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 429