Selected: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1808 |
Nature: | 'The church...is a plasin neat edifice...it was thoroughly repaired, enlarged and modernmosed in 1808, when the tower was taken down, and the original oaken roof replaced with one of slate, cjoef;u at the expense of Bishop Percy...' (Lewis). |
Refs: |
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), i, 508. |
Name: | WESTMACOTT, RICHARD (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1811p |
Nature: | Memorial tablet to Bishop Thomas Percy (1729-1811). |
Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 87. |
Name: | ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1856a |
Nature: | Extensive repairs. |
Refs: | Slater's Directory of Ireland (1856) |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1869-71 |
Nature: | New apse in memory of Bishop Jeremy Taylor and north aisle. Builder: Walter Doolin (£1,500).. |
Refs: | Drawing(s) dated 1869 in RCB Library, portfolio12; Architect 2, 16 Oct 1869, 195; IB 11, 1 Aug 1869, 187; 12, 1 Jan 1870, 4; B 27, 31 Jul 1869, 615; 29, 14 Jan 1871, 32-33; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 104; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 182 |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1877 |
Nature: | Chancel latedly decorated in polychrome by Robert Mannix, Harcourt St, dublin, 'under suggestion of' Thomas Drew. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 214, 1 Feb 1877, 46. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1879 |
Nature: | Low wall with railing enclosing graveyard built in place of high wall. Cost: £300. |
Refs: |
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p.3. |
Name: | HOBART, HENRY WILLIAM EDWARD |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1898 |
Nature: | Extension of N aisle to W end (Harding Memorial Aisle). |
Refs: | IB 40, 1 Jul 1898, 100; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 182(illus.). |
Name: | DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI) |
Date: | 1935? |
Nature: | Window designed and carried out Messrs. W.J. Douglas & Sons. |
Refs: |
Publicityb rochure of W.J. Douglas & Sons, post 1935, citing Belfast Telegraph, 16 Jan 1935. |