Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LEITRIM, DRUMSNA, CHURCH OF ST ANN (CI, ANNADUFF PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LEITRIM, DRUMSNA, CHURCH OF ST ANN (CI, ANNADUFF PARISH)
Date: 1820
Nature: 'The church is a neat edifice, in the later English style, with a square tower crowned  withe minarets, for the erection of which the late Board of first Fruits, in 1815, granted a loan of £1600.'(Lewis)  According to Clergy of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, it was built in 1820 at a cost of ££1476.18s.5½d.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 28;  Clergy of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 242(illus.),243;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 251, which gives date as 1820.


Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. LEITRIM, DRUMSNA, CHURCH OF ST ANN (CI, ANNADUFF PARISH)
Date: 1860
Nature: Tenders invited for certain works to be executed 'according to plans &c. by the Architects to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners'.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Aug 1860, 317. (For a description and external photograph of this church, see Duncan Scarlett, Dedicated to St Anne (2007), 1-3.)