Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, STRAND ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, KILLOWEN PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, STRAND ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, KILLOWEN PARISH)
Date: 1830a;1834
Nature: New church. 3-bay hall with Gothic windows. Subscriptions opened 1826. Completed Jun 1830. Cost £988. New gallery and S aisle proposed, 1834; arch opened in S wall to allow for new aisle.
Refs: A. Day, P. McWilliams & L. English, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 33, 159

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, STRAND ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, KILLOWEN PARISH)
Date: 1867a
Nature: Church reopened 13 Oct 1867 after 'considerable repairs' and erection of double N transept. Builder: James Alison, Limavady.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 25 Oct 1867; IB 9, 1 Nov 1867, 287; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 204.

Name: FERGUSON, JOHN GUY
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, STRAND ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, KILLOWEN PARISH)
Date: 1875
Nature: Extensive alts. & imps. W wall taken down and rebuilt, new porch added, E wall partly removed and chancel added, side walls lowered and highly pitched roof put on, new windows. Consecrated 27 Jul 1875. Contr: McClelland & Co., Derry. Furnishing: A.D. Williams & Co. Varnishing & painting: J. & D. Baxter, Coleraine
Refs: IB 17, 1 Aug 1875, 205,215; B 33, 14 Aug 1875, 725; J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 243; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 28; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 205; exterior illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 85, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 169.


Name: BLACKWOOD & JURY
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, STRAND ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, KILLOWEN PARISH)
Date: 1927
Nature: Vestry.
Refs: J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 243; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 28; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 205.