Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)

Name: MARTIN, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1744-45
Nature: JM architect and/or builder of cathedral for John Stearne, Bishop of Clogher (d.1745).
Refs: John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 5,6; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 45,191

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1818
Nature: Remodelling 'in Grecian style', for Dean Richard Bagwell.
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Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland(1837), I, 344; JRSAI 16 (1883-84), 158;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979),191.

Name: DOWNS, JAMES
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1820
Nature: 'Mr Downes the Architect' paid £2.16s.6d. for repairs to cathedral costing £100.
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: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1853-54
Nature: Cathedral re-opened, 29 Jan 1854, after being shut for 4 months 'while undergoing a complet course of painting and other extensive repairs and alterations to the interior'. Contractor: P. Duffy, Monaghan.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 3 Feb 1854.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1864-65
Nature: New robing room. Tenders invited, Dec 1864. Contractor Hugh Stewart.
Refs: Signed contract? drawings, dated 1865, in RCB Library, portfolio 3;  Armagh Guardian, 16 Dec 1864.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1880a
Nature: Completely restored through beficence of Mrs Taylor of Cheltenham, widow of John Edward Taylor of Canbrooke.  Memorial window to him in S transept. New chancel window in memory of John 'george Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh. Fleur de lys fretwork wainscot.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 22, no. 9, 28 Feb 1880, 187 (quoting Northern Standard).

Name: BAILEY, WILLIAM RICHEY
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1880ca
Nature: Choir stall carving, restoration of stairway
Refs: St McCartan's Cathedral 5th C - 1960

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. TYRONE, CLOGHER, CATHEDRAL OF ST MACARTAN (CI)
Date: 1908
Nature: Good Shepherd window
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 75