Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1732
Nature: New church, later altered and Gothicized. Tyndall says built with collaboration of Col. Wynne of Hazelwood.
Refs: NA/PRO M2533 p366 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Richard Pococke (ed. G.T. Stokes), Tour in Ireland in 1752 (1891), 72 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Charles Tyndall, St John Baptist, Sligo, ?;  the Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38

Name: KENNEDY, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1888
Nature: Restoration, mainly in region of roof, completed. Architect: 'Mr Kennedy'. Contractor: George Kerr, Sligo.
Refs: IB 30, 1 Nov 1888, 278;  interior and exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 249.

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Church painted and decorated to designs of HS by Mssrs. Meldrum, Sligo.  HS also designed prayer desk and sedilia presented by Christopher L'Estrange in memory of his parents, executed by A.P. Sharp, Dublin.
Refs: Irish Times, 27 Aug 1890.

Name: SHARP, ALFRED PETER *
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1890
Nature: Executes prayer desk and sedilia designed by Henry Seaver for Christopher L'Estrange as a memorial to his parents.
Refs: Irish Times, 27 Aug 1890.