Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, KNOCKNAMUCKLEY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, KNOCKNAMUCKLEY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1851-53;1859
Nature: Proposed enlargement by addition of vestry on S and porch on W, 1852, but Mulligan gives whole building to JW, Proposed enlargement, 1859. According to Rankin (Clergy of Down & Dromore), site was purchased 1844 and church was consecrated on Feast of St Matthias, 23 Feb 1853.
Refs: Design(s) for enlargement by addition of S vestry and W porch, s. & d. 1852, in RCB Library, portfolio 12; B 9, 31 May 1851, 346; DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 104; Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 207(illus.); exterior of church also illustrated in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),  199;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 301.
 

Name: FULLERTON, WILLIAM TURNEY
Building: CO. DOWN, KNOCKNAMUCKLEY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1859
Nature: Tenders invited for erection of gallery 'in accordance with the Plans and Specifications of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Plans and Specifications may be seen at the residence of the Incumbent, Rev. A. Dawson, Drumlin, Portadown ; or, at the Office of the Architect, William Fullerton, Esq., Palace Row, Armagh.'
Refs: Portadown Weekly News, 23 Jul 1859;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013),
301.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. DOWN, KNOCKNAMUCKLEY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1872
Nature: New pulpit. (Rankin says present pulpit is a memorial to fallen of First World War).
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1

Name: FENNELL, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, KNOCKNAMUCKLEY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS (CI)
Date: 1911
Nature: Tenders invited for addition of chancel and other work, May 1911..
Refs: IB 53, 27 May,22 Jul 1911, 362,494; IA & C 1, 20 May 1911, 229; B 100, 19 May 1911, 628;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 301.