Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, PORTAFERRY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI, BALLYPHILIP PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, PORTAFERRY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI, BALLYPHILIP PARISH)
Date: 1787
Nature: 'The church. situated in the town of Portaferry, is a neat modern edifice, erected in 1787, and has been lately repaired by a grant of £343 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.'
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 160.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, PORTAFERRY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI, BALLYPHILIP PARISH)
Date: 1861
Nature: Enlargement to provide additional sittings 'for upwards of sixty'.
Refs: The Protestant Watchman and Lurgan Gazette, 30 Nov 1861.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. DOWN, PORTAFERRY, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI, BALLYPHILIP PARISH)
Date: 1864
Nature: New chancel, with organ room to N, vestry to S. New S transept.
Refs: Signed drawings, dated Oct 1864, in RCB Library, portfolio 11; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Pt I, 47(illus.)