Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.