Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, AGHADOWEY, CHURCH OF ST GUAIRE (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, AGHADOWEY, CHURCH OF ST GUAIRE (CI)
Date: 1797
Nature: Church of c.1760 rebuilt 1797 with tower and spire by Earl Bishop of Derry. Spire struck by lightning 1826 and taken down , when tower was embattled with 4 pinnacles.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 15; J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 89; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 105;  illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 165.
 

Name: FERGUSON, JOHN GUY
Building: CO. DERRY, AGHADOWEY, CHURCH OF ST GUAIRE (CI)
Date: 1870
Nature: To be considerably enlarged & improved.
Refs: IB 12, 1 Aug 1870, 188; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 105.