Aughaval Group of Parishes

  A few more images taken on Inishbiggle on Sat 15 Feb 2025, thanks mainly to Jim Waters, Westport, and an informative article (2013), below, by Patrick Comerford, on the history of the Church of Ireland on the island.  You can read the full unedited article, with images, here:  http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2013/05/a-history-of-church-of-ireland-on.html .  Shared with thanks to the author.     The freshly decorated interior and beautifully restored pews A history of the Church of Ireland on Inishbiggle  You can read this informative article  by Patrick Comerford,  in full, unedited, with images, here:  http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2013/05/a-history-of-church-of-ireland-on.html From a lecture by  Patrick Comerford  in Holy Trinity Church. Inishbiggle Island, given on Sunday 6 May 2013, as part of a guided walk on Inishbiggle Island led by Sheila McHugh during the ninth Annual Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend 2013. It wa...

  We are so grateful to so many people who, with selfless goodwill, are pulling out all the stops to help us and other parishes repair our church buildings and premises; from roofers, builders, architects, engineers and structural engineers, safety advisers, insurers and loss adjusters, and county councillors, not to mention the many faithful church wardens and other vestry members who are working away behind the scenes.  We see Christ in them and God in all the detail! Great to see repair work to the roof underway in Christ Church Castlebar.  The Lecture by Dr Michael O'Connor on the 200th Anniversary of the Decision by the Select Vestry to Rebuild the Christ Church, will go ahead as planned on Thursday 13 February at 7.30pm in the church. This is a free event and open to everyone, with tea/coffee to follow. Come along if you can! 

The Eagle Lectern, Holy Trinity Church, Westport, adorned in Advent.

by theirishaesthete reproduced for archival: https://theirishaesthete.com/2022/09/30/holy-trinity-westport/   This week marks the 150 Anniversary of the consecration of Holy Trinity in Westport, County Mayo, thought to be the last church to be built prior to the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1871, and therefore acting as a last hurrah of the old ecclesiastical order in this country. Designed by Thomas Newenham Deane and constructed on a site provided by the third Marquess of Sligo, the building replaced a late 18th century church (now ruinous) elsewhere on the estate. The work is thought to have cost more than £80,000, this high price explained by the exceptional craftsmanship evident throughout, not least the elaborate carvings around all doors and windows on the exterior; these were the work of one William Ridge, about whom it appears little else is known. The interior is just as generously decorated with stained glass provided by Alexander Gibbs and Company of Lo...

Information from the National Built Heritage Service https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/31212019/holy-trinity-church-oughaval-newport-street-westport-demesne-burr-by-westport-mayo   Survey Data Reg No 31212019 Rating National Categories of Special Interest Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social, Technical Original Use Church/chapel In Use As Church/chapel Date 1865 - 1875 Coordinates 99782, 284671 Date Recorded 15/08/2008 Description Detached five-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1869; built 1869-71; consecrated 1872; extant 1897, comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay full-height apse (east) on an engaged half-octagonal plan with single-bay two-stage turret (south-east) on a square plan supporting octagonal "pencil spire". Restored, 1984-6. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed segmental-headed door opening into nave with timber double doors having overpanel; f...