Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1826
Nature: New chapel-of-ease in parish of Drumcree, 'a handsome edifice in the early English style, with a tower at the east end'. (Originally dedicated to St Martin)..
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 514

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1844
Nature: Enlargement of church to make it cruciform.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 4, no. 41 (15 Nov 1862), 617.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Enlargement to provide and extra 300 seats by widening nave to width of transepts and increasing galleries. Repewing.  Builder: Arthur Henry, Newry, 'who was recommended by the taste and skill he had previously displayed in the erection of the handsome Church at Drumbanagher'. Church reopened, 18 Sep 1862. Font also designed by W & G. Described in 1882 as follows: ‘…of the Church-Warden style of architecture originally, it has by successive enlargements been almost trebled in size, in fact it is now much broader than long, and almost ashideous and barn-like a structure as can be found in the wholeisland…Perhaps a fair notion may be attained by imagining three parallelogrammatic churches posited side by side, with a five-footchancel such as would be quite out of proportion for one such church, let alone three. A heart-rending gallery of great linear proportions (i.e. length without breadth), and in the midst of it an
ancient organ to complete the dreary picture.’)
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 4, no. 41 (15 Nov 1862), 617; 24, no. 148, 28 Oct 1882, 767.

Name: COATES, JOHN [2]*
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1866p
Nature: Monument to Alexander Bredon (d.1866).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 504.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1884-85
Nature: Enlargement and restoration. Estimated cost: £5,000. Reopened Sep 1885. Contractors: Collen Bros. (Dedication changed from St Martin's to St Mark's._
Refs: Letter from JFF to a Mr Holden, 24 Jul 1882, asking for plans of church in RCB Library, portfolio 2B;  Irish Eccclesiastical Gazette 25, no. 157, 6 Jan 1883, 15   IB 26, 1 Feb 1884, 43; 27, 15 Sep 1885, 262; 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994; C.E.B. Brett, D., Dunleath, R. Oram & A.J. Rowan. Historic Buildings…in the designated area of the Craigavon Development Commission (UAHS, 1970), 3;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 503;  SClaude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),
130(illus.).

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1891
Nature: Stained glass in E window.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 504.

Name: TIROLER GLASMALEREI *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1894p
Nature: Stained glass triple lancet window in N transept (Transfiguration) in memory of - Bredon (d. 1894).
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/15901/ (last visited, Aug 2014).

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1909
Nature: New chancel arcading of parish church completed. Bath stone with Galway green marble panelling and Cork red marble columns.
Refs: IB 51, 6 Mar 1909, 146

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Date: 1928-1930
Nature: War memorial tower replacing smaller original tower. FS laid in or before Nov 1928. To cost £10,000. Contractor: Collen Bros, Portadown.
Refs: IB 70, 3 Mar,10 Nov 1928, 195,967; 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994; C.E.B. Brett, D., Dunleath, R. Oram & A.J. Rowan. Historic Buildings…in the designated area of the Craigavon Development Commission (UAHS, 1970), 3;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 504.