Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DRUMBEG, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, DRUMBEG, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1869-71
Nature: New T-plan church in 13th cent. Gothic style. Tower of former church (with spire built by late John Charley of Finaghy, 1833) retained to form principal entrance to church. Hexagonal apse. Stained glass in apse by Heaton, Butler & Bayne.Consecrated Jan 1871. Builder: Fitzpatrick Bros.
Refs: Drawing(s) signed and dated 1869 in RCB Library, portfolio 11; B 29, 28 Jan 1871, 72; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 107 (no. S9, illus.); J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 104; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 106(illus.);  exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 191.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, DRUMBEG, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Lych gate built by Ellen Callwell in memory of her brother, John Ferguson Montgomery, of Ballydrain.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 106(illus.);  lych gate also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 191; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 357(illus.). 

Name: BLACKWOOD & JURY
Building: CO. DOWN, DRUMBEG, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1923
Nature: Extensive improvements
Refs: IB 65, 19 May 1923, 382

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. DOWN, DRUMBEG, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: 3 windows in apse : Sacrifice of Isaac and brazen serpent (NE); Passover and institution of the Lord's Supper (E); and Agony and Journey to Emmaus (SE).
Refs: B 29, 28 Jan 1871, 72; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 106