Selected: CO. DERRY, MAGHERA, CHURCH OF ST LURACH (CI)
Name: | BOWDEN, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DERRY, MAGHERA, CHURCH OF ST LURACH (CI) |
Date: | 1819-1820 |
Nature: | New church 'to a standard design by John Bowden'(Rowan); 'a neat edifice of stonewith a square embattled tower crowned with pinnacles, towards which the…Board[of First Fruits] granted a loan of £1363.6.2½' (Lewis). |
Refs: |
S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 330; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 410; Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 18, 7; exterior illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 92, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 170. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. DERRY, MAGHERA, CHURCH OF ST LURACH (CI) |
Date: | 1864 |
Nature: | Addition of chancel. Contractor: James Alison. |
Refs: | Signed drawing, also signed by contractor, Jul 1864, in RCB Library, portfolio 10A; General Advertiser, 23 Apr 1864; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 410 |
Name: | ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD |
Building: | CO. DERRY, MAGHERA, CHURCH OF ST LURACH (CI) |
Date: | 1906-7 |
Nature: | Brass lectern in memory of William Clark of Ampertain. Executed by T.R. Scott and Co. Dedicated on Feast of Epiphany, Jan 1907. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 11 Jan 1907. |