Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BALLYDEHOB, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, BALLYDEHOB, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1829
Nature: 'At Ballydehob is a very handsome church, in the later English style, erected in 1829 as a chapel of ease [in parish of Schull], at an expense of £600, a gift from the late Board of First Fruits' (Lewis)  (Chancel and western bays of nave added later.)
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 561;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 364(illus.).

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CORK, BALLYDEHOB, CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1869
Nature: Proposed addition of 3 bays and gallery at W end of nave. (Chancel already added.)
Refs: Signed plans, datedb 28 May 1869, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/2005 (last visited, 5Jan 2017).