Copies of Newspaper Adverts
Building Accounts
1872 Tipping's (Chapel Builder) Account £1840-10-10½d
Architect's Account £97-12-10d
Lime & Sand £45-0-0d
Advertisements "25-0-0d
Seats £93-11-9½d
Gallery Account £119-2-10½d
Pulpit & Altar Rails £48-6-0d
Sundries Two Charity sermons & dinners, Dedication, Travelling expenses in England & Ireland collecting for the church a/c £148-1-9d.
Churchyard Accounts
1876 Building walls £50-12-6d
1877 Building walls £29-5-8½d
1878 Building walls £13-11-1½d
1879 Building walls, pillars and gate £29-6-11½d
Vestments Account
Candlesticks £11-0-0d
Long Candlesticks £2-10-0d
Aspergillum & Stoup for High Altar £1-7-6d
Antependium High Altar £4-0-0d
Antependium Virgin's Altar £3-3-0d
Linens Account £8-0-8d
Harmonium, Benediction Vestments £59-16-8d
The Virgin's altar of marble was made by C.W. Harrison, Great Brunswick street, Dublin at a cost of £50.0.0.
The cost of the foundation and erecting the altar was £3.0.0.
Charles McGlade of Knockloughrim left a bequest for the Virgin's Altar of £50 to this was added £3.0.0 from Parish funds.
John McNally of Cookstown then painted and decorated Saint Joseph's altar, varnished the seats and the sanctuary for £20. He also varnished the roof and painted the walls of the church, the windows and doors for £25.0.0.
Ladders and timber for Lavey church cost £5.0.0.
For sinking the foundation of the High Altar £3.10.0.
All paid at this date, March 29th, 1889.
Below is a beautiful old confession box, one each side of the chapel, men's side, women's side. Removed in 2019 renovation. Priest sat in middle, parishioners waited at each side on a kneeler. Penance dispensed as appropriate.
View of altar from under old gallery 1996
Names of people who made donations to build chapel
Notes on a Mission in Lavey October the 27th 1889
A Mission was given in Saint Mary's Lavey by the Redemptorists for a Fortnight beginning October the 20th, 1889. A Press cutting from the "Irish News" dated November the 22nd, 1889 has the following:-"For fully an hour before 6.30 o'clock pm, the time fixed for 'the close', every available part of the large and spacious church was packed and before 6.30 the churchyard and every approach thereto were filled.
Altogether the great congregation was
computed to be close on 10,000
persons.