Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1815-1820
Nature: Remodelling of existing T-plan church and addition of tower, effected with loan of £1000 from Board of First Fruits.  JB paid £10 for plans, 1815. Church examined, 1820.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 368-9;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 242, which gives slightly different account.

Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1865
Nature: AH surveys and makes sketch plan of old T-plan church before its re-orientation by Welland & Gillespie.
Refs: Sketch plan by Alexander Hardy, 2 Dec 1859, in RCB Library, portfolio 20.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1865
Nature: Re-orientation to convert former T-plan arrrangement with altar on long wall so that former crossbar becomes nave of new church.  New sittings, pulpit and reading desk. Contractor: Henry Sharpe.
Refs: Signed drawing(s) also signed by contractor, 6 Jul 1865, in RCB Library, portfolio 20;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 369;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 242.

Name: COATES, JOHN [2]*
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1873p
Nature: Monument to Rev. Francis Saunderson (d.1873).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 369.

Name: GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILDALLON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1899
Nature: E window (Angel and women at the tomb) for Archdeacon of Kilmore.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3064/ (last visited, Mar 2014)