Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1804
Nature: New church, consecrated 29 Sep 1804.  Tower and steeple designed by JG
Refs: See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index;  exterior illus. in
Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 285 (illus.),287;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 353.

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1867
Nature: Reopened after repewing, moving communion table to chancel, new font, heating, &c. Contractor: John Waldron, Abbeyleix. Cost defrayed by subscriptions and grant from Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Refs: IB 9, 1 Jan 1867, 14

Name: BANKS, -
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1872
Nature: Extensive alts. & imps. to be made.
Refs: IB 14, 1 Oct 1872, 273

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1880
Nature: New 2-light window filled with flower and foliage work by Mayer of Munich and London just installed.  Erected by Mrs Piggott in memory of her husband, Thomas Piggott.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 22, no. 13, 27 Mar 1880, 262.

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1938
Nature: Stained-glass window (Christ blessing the children)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 62