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 |