Joseph Ireland (c. 1780 – 1841) was an English architect who designed Roman Catholic Church buildings in the early nineteenth century.
[1] He worked almost entirely for Roman Catholic patrons,[1] notably the Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, John Milner.
In 1826, the Society of Jesus set up a mission there and building work started on the church the following year.
The priory in Hinckley was the centre for the Dominicans in Britain and the chapel was dedicated to St Peter.
[7] In 1829 he built a chapel at Tixhall Hall, Staffordshire for the Clifford family; it was dismantled following the sale of the estate in 1840 and rebuilt as St John the Baptist Church at Great Haywood.