Church drawings digitized
The project to digitize, catalogue and make available online the Church of Ireland’s collections of architectural drawings of churches housed in the RCB Library has reached another significant landmark, with the completion of imaging ten albums of early 19th–century drawings of churches, amounting to some 1,500 drawings. All digital copies of these drawings which cover a total of 591 different church buildings have now been uploaded to the searchable database and are now freely available for viewing and searching.
The six earliest albums contain drawings by the architect of the Board of First Fruits, James Pain (c.1779–1877),…
