Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, ST JOHNSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST BAITHEN (RC)

Name: GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ST JOHNSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST BAITHEN (RC)
Date: 1857-1860
Nature: New cruciform church. FS laid 4 Apr 1857. Dedicated 9 Dec 1860. Builder: Samuel McElwee. Stonework contractor: Gore, Derry. Cost: £2,000. Stone carving on spandrels and corbels of W window: Mr Doherty, Derry.
Refs: B 15, 11 Apr,9 May 1857, 211,258-9(illus.); DB 2, 1 Nov,1 Dec 1860, 363, 367-8; 3, 1 Dec 1861, 692; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland, typescript copy of doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 1970, II, 492-3; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 482.

Name: BARFF, FREDERICK SETTLE *
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ST JOHNSTOWN, CHURCH OF ST BAITHEN (RC)
Date: 1860
Nature: Stained glass, high altar and side altar with Pieta all by Barff workshop.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Dec 1860, 368