Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, CASTLEDAWSON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, CASTLEDAWSON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1829
Nature: Chapel of ease on Dawson estate (built 1760?) repaired at cost of £150 and reopened for service. Cost defrayed by George Robert Dawson.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 6, 47.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, CASTLEDAWSON, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1876
Nature: Church consecrated 7 Nov 1876 after enlargement at cost of £600; 'triple lancets in the gables, a new overhanging roof with Tudoresque bargeboards, and a side porch...all look late C19 and probably date from the creation of the parish (out of a perpetual curacy) in 1875' (Rowan). church dedicated as 'Christ Church' in 1876.(Leslie).
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 211, 24 Nov 1876, 359;  J.B. Leslie, Derry Clergy and Parishes (Enniskillen, 1937), 144;   Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979),  180;  illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 53. and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 166;