Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1843-44
Nature: New church with 3-bay nave, shallow chancel, bell-turret on W gable. Erected by private subscription to accommodate about 600.
Refs: 2 sets of signed drawings, dated 1843 and 1844, in RCB Library, portfolio 20; B 9, 31 May 1851, 346;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 205;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 246(illus.).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1855
Nature: Proposed addition of tower, retaining N door..
Refs: Signed drawing(s) dated 1855 in RCB Library, portfolio 20

Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: Proposed enlargement by adding extra bay to nave, passage and robing room to S, enlarging chancel, with W porch and door. Tenders open Jul 1860.
Refs: Sketch plan, signed A. Hardy, Derry, 12 Apr 1859, and unsigned drawings (also by Hardy?), Aug 1860, in RCB Library, portfolio 20; DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 301

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: 'Seamless enlargements of 1860': extra bay to nave, chancel with  new robing room; replacement of old robing room with shallow N transept. Contractor: William Hague.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 208.


Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1864
Nature: Addition of N transept with 2 lancet windows and fireplace between them. Contractor: William Hague.
Refs: Contract drawing, signed by contractor and dated 24 Jul 1864 in RCB Library, portfolio 20.

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1864
Nature: WH contractor for new N. transept.
Refs: Contract drawing, signed by WH and dated 24 Jul 1864 in RCB Library, portfolio 20;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 205.

Name: JONES & WILLIS *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, BILLIS, CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (CI)
Date: 1906
Nature: 3-light E window (I am the Resurrection), 1906, attr. to J & W by David Lawrence.
Refs: Gloine,  http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3059/ (last visited, Apr 2014).