Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1789
Nature: 'The church is remarkably handsome, both internally and externally;  it was erected about 50 years since, and has a fine spire;  the interior is highly finishedand very commodious, and furnished with a good organ, the gift of the late baronet [Sir Arthur Carden];  the window over the altar is enriched with a representation of the Crucifixion in stained glass;  the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £169 for the repairs of the church.'(Lewis)  According to Costegalde & Walker church was built in 1789 and consecrated in 1794 by Archbishop Charles Agar.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 610;  Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 99(illus.)-101;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 337.



Name: RYAN, DENIS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1817-1820;1823
Nature: Work  on steeple and spire,1817,  rebuilding of spire, 1820, and addition of buttresses to steeple, 1823.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1854
Nature: Enlargement at NE angle to create robing room, new E window and other windows, open timbered roof, seating, reader's desk , chancel rail.

Refs: Drawings in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/675-682 (last visited, Mar 2017).

Name: LOOBY, THOMAS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: TL involved as architect and/or builder.
Refs: Hampshire Record Office Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).