Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, ATHBOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MEATH, ATHBOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: 1792
Nature: FJ signs estimate for steeple, 1792.
Refs: E.McP files, citing documents in 'Meath Registry'

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MEATH, ATHBOY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 'The present church is of two distinct periods.  Adjoining the tower, a simple C18 hall with intersecting Y-tracery windows - now converted to a church hall - with a small cruciform church attached to it.   This is of the early C19 Board of First Fruits type, though not apparently built until after 1846...' (Casey and Rowan).
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 125;  exterior illus. in  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 319.