Selected: CO. ARMAGH, POYNTZPASS, CHURCH (CI, ACTON PARISH)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, POYNTZPASS, CHURCH (CI, ACTON PARISH) |
Date: | 1793;1829 |
Nature: | Built 1793. Enlarged and repaired, 1829. but cf. OS Memoirs which say that church is 'altogether much out of repair' although 'rebuilt and slightly repaired, 1835'. |
Refs: |
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 7; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 692; Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: Parishes of Co. Armagh, 1835-9, 6; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 512-13; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 120. |
Name: | MCCREASH (OR MCCREASH), THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, POYNTZPASS, CHURCH (CI, ACTON PARISH) |
Date: | 1819 |
Nature: | Memento Mori sundial on N face of tower. |
Refs: |
Barbara Best, Acton Parish Church, Poyntzpass (Poyntzpass and District Local History Society, ?) 85 (illus.), http://www.poyntzpass.co.uk/Before_I_Forget/2000_No_8/Acton_Parish_Church_Poyntzpass.pdf (last visited, May 2014); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 513. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, POYNTZPASS, CHURCH (CI, ACTON PARISH) |
Date: | 1861-62 |
Nature: | Proposed new 5-bay N aisle, incorporating entrance. Tenders invited for 'works to be executed at the church of Acton', Oct 1862. |
Refs: |
Signed design, dated 15 May 1861, in RCB Library, portfolio 2A; Armagh Guardian, 31 Oct 1862; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 513. |
Name: | MOORE, TEMPLE # |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, POYNTZPASS, CHURCH (CI, ACTON PARISH) |
Date: | 1890-91 |
Nature: | Imps costing about £700, including new chancel, choir stalls, prayer desks, lectern, chancel window 'of chaste design', porch with handsome oak supports. Church reopened 6 Feb 1891. |
Refs: |
IB 33, 15 Feb 1891, 44; information from Stuart Kinsella in e-mail of 21 Nov 2019, citing information from Moore's biographer, Geoffrey Brandwood. |