1861 – Christ Church, Gorey, Co. Wexford
Aan impressive church built in the ‘Modern English style’
Aan impressive church built in the ‘Modern English style’
Opened in 1861 as a Model National School.
In the June 15th, 1862 edition of the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette it reports that on Friday the 30th May “Two interesting events took place in the parish of Horetown.
Erected to the design by George Edmund Street both as a parish Church of Ireland and later as a memorial to Solomon Augustus Richards (1828-74) and Sophia Mordaunt Richards (1829-99) of nearby Ardamine House.
Fine church with tower and spire.
Courtown House, near Gorey, was the seat of the Earls of Courtown.
Cushinstown is one of the largest parishes in County Wexford, Ireland.
The District Asylum was designed by James Bell and James Barry Farrell in the Italianate style,
Largely remodelled by G.C. Ashlin in the late 1860s for local MP Sir John Esmonde,
The original church was by Thomas Cooley,