Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: MACK, ROBERT
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1775p
Nature: Monument to Lady Catherine Somerville (d. 1775)
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1797
Nature: Tower erected by Sir James Quayle Somerville.
Refs: Inscription on plaque above door: Sir James Quayle Somerville Baronet Built this Steeple Anno Domini 1797.

Name: THEED, WILLIAM (THE YOUNGER)*#
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1821p;1831p;1843p
Nature: Monuments to members of the Somerville family. Roscoe lists three monuments -  to Mary Somerville (d. 1821), Sir Marcus Somerville (d. 1831) and Lady Maria Harriet Somerville (d.1843) - whereas Potterton and Casey & Rowan mention only the latter two.
Refs: Ingrid Roscoe, ed., A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851 (Yale University Press, 2009), 1238; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 84; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341.

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1855p
Nature: Memorial to Lt. William Somerville (d. 1855).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1855p
Nature: Memorial to Anna Somerville (d. 1855).
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MEATH, KENTSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 'The church is a neat edifice  with a tower, erected about 80 years since, for the repair s of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners lately granted £134'(Lewis). According to Casey & Rowan church 'begun in the later C18 and remodelled in the mid-C19'.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837),, II, 38;  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 341; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 318.