Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, GARTAN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)

Name: GRIER, GEORGE
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GARTAN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1819
Nature: Architect's name recorded on plaque on tower.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 304; F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 139(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 172.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GARTAN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: Renovation' proceeding rapidly'.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 25, no. 159, 20 Jan 1883, 61.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GARTAN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1895
Nature: Restoration and addition of chancel, E window and S aisle by Mrs Cornelia Adair of Glenveagh Castle (but cf. James Franklin Fuller, below).
Refs: F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 139(illus.) 

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GARTAN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA (CI)
Date: 1913
Nature: New aisle and 3-light window in E wall dedicated. Window represents Columba's baptism, his landing at Iona and his death.
Refs: Building News 105, 3 Oct 1913, 490;  but cf. Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 304, and F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 139