Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1770p
Nature: Old church at Prospect, built ca 1609, demolished, 1770, and new church built in Courtown demesne..
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Ferns Clergy and Parishes (1936), 209

Name: CAMPBELL, THOMAS *#
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1836
Nature: Monument to Lady Charlotte Stopford (d.18280, lst wife of Viscount Stopford, later 4th Earl of Courtown and daughter of Charles, 4th Duke of Buccleuch)
Refs: Model of part of monument exh. RA 1839, no. 1284; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 38;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 99, Fig. 139.

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1877-79
Nature: Plans prepared, 1877. Improvement and enlargement, nearly complete, 1879. Church reopened after a' large outlay'., Nov? 1879. Arcade of 3 arches substituted for north wall and aisle 13 ft wide added 'with a monumentary chapel placed transeptwise at the chancel end; chapel, , flooring and reseating of nave carried out at sole cost of Earl of Courtown, who also presented reader's desk. Pulpit given by Hon. E. Stopford, Borris, Co. Carlow.  Work executed in early pointed tyle from  Irish examples. Stone dressings of Bagenalstown ganite.  Contractor: B.W. Webster, Gorey.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 216, 1 Apr 1877, 149; 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement p.12;  IB 21, 15 May 1879, 146;  exterior of church illus. in Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster HistoricalFoundation, 2008), 461;  exterior of church illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 344. 

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1880ca;1893;1895;1914
Nature: E window (St John; Resurrection; St Mary Magdalene); 4 windows in S and W walls of south aisle (Nativity; Feeding the Hungry and visiting the Sick; Christ as Good Shepherd and Christ as Light of the World; St Patrick and St Aidan).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2902/ (last visited, Dec 2016).

Name: POWELL, JAMES & SONS *#
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1894
Nature: Opus sectile mosaic in memorial chapel (Angel with crown, Angel with lily). Designed by Ada Currey.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/building/building/2902/ (last visited Mar 2009).

Name: MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, COURTOWN, CHURCH (CI, KILTENNEL PARISH)
Date: 1936
Nature: Stained glass window (St Brigid) in W wall of nave.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2902/ (last visited, Dec 2016).