Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, SHINRONE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. OFFALY, SHINRONE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1819
Nature: 'The church, a handsome building, was erected in 1819, for which purpose the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £2,300.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 554;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 397. 

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. OFFALY, SHINRONE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1878-82
Nature: Parishioners to consult JFF about refitting and heating church, Jul 1878. Improvements carried out, including including new reading desk, pulpit and lectern. Communion table raised on dais, and set of
rails on iron standards placed round it. New vestry room built.  Church reopened, 4 Jul 1882.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 232, 1 Jul 1878, 200; 21, no. 241, 1 Apr 1879, 493,1 May 1879, 526;  24, no. 132, 8 Jul 1882, 486