Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1860-61
Nature: Addition of N transept, chancel & robing room to church which had been converted from former market house in or after 1837 when parish was formed. Contractor:Thomas Henry Carroll.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), dated 21 Sep 1860, in RCB Library, portfolio 2B; IAA, PKS A03 (Apr 1861, p.89v); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 519;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 130.


Name: CARROLL, THOMAS HENRY *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1860-61
Nature: THC contractor for additions, to designs by Welland & Gillespie.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), dated 21 Sep 1860, in RCB Library, portfolio 2B; IAA, PKS A03 (Apr 1861, p.89v).

Name: GIBBS, ALEXANDER, & CO. *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1862
Nature: Triple lancet E window (Christ setting a child in the midst, Christ as Good Shepherd, Paable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins) in memory of Isabella Richardson 'in whose memory this chancel was erected'.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3427/ (last visited, Mar 2014).

Name: CAMERON, JAMES *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1880;1881
Nature: 2 stained glass windows in memory of Louisa Bacon of Richhill:  double-light window in N wall of nave, 1880, and triple light window (Faith, Hope and Charity) in N transept, 1881.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/15907 , last visited Dec., 2013.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1890p
Nature: Stained glass window in S wall of nave (SS Paul and John) in memory of John Jackson (d. 1890).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/15905/

Name: COSTIGAN, WILLIAM, & CO. *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1907p
Nature: Monument to Francis James Best.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 520.

Name: JERVOIS, WILLIAM SAMPSON
Building: CO. ARMAGH, RICHHILL, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI)
Date: 1912
Nature: New tower.Tenders invited, Jul -Aug 1912.
Refs: IB 54, 3,17 Aug 1912, 458,484; B 103, 26 Jul 1912, 125;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 519.