Joseph Welland (6 May 1798 – 6 March 1860) was born in Middleton, County Cork and became an Irish

Architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

for the

Board of First Fruits The Board of First Fruits () was an institution of the Church of Ireland that was established in 1711 by Anne, Queen of Great Britain to build and improve churches and glebe houses in Ireland. This was funded from taxes collected on clerical inco ...

and later the

Ecclesiastical Commissioners The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were, in England and Wales, a body corporate, whose full title was Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England. The commissioners were authorized to determine the distribution of revenues of the Chu ...

. He was as a student to John Bowden and became his assistant and is noted to have designed many churches and schools around Ireland. While working with John Bowden with the Board of First Fruits, he shared some of Bowden's works. These include St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown and St. Stephen's Church, Mount Street (The Pepper Canister), both of which Joseph Welland had to complete himself after Bowden's death in 1821. Joseph Welland died on 6 March 1860 and was buried in St George's churchyard, Dublin. His younger son William Joseph Welland (1832-1895) also designed churches, and worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Selection of Works

* St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown (1821) * St. Stephen's Church, Mount Street (The Pepper Canister) (1821) * North Strand Church (1836) * St. James' Church, James Street (1859) *St Mary’s Church,

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(1862) *

St Peter's Church, Ballymodan St Peter's Church, Ballymodan (also referred to as St Peter's Church, Bandon) is an Anglicanism, Anglican Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church located in Ballymodan, Bandon, County Cork, Bandon, County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ire ...

(1847)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Welland, Joseph Irish architects Irish ecclesiastical architects 1798 births 1860 deaths Architects of cathedrals Burials at St. George's Church Cemetery, Dublin