Selected: CO. DERRY, DERRY, INFIRMARY ROAD, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Name: | FERGUSON, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DERRY, DERRY, INFIRMARY ROAD, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1830-32 |
Nature: | Built as chapel-of-ease to cathedral at expense of Bishop Knox (£780). Consecrated 22 Aug 1832. Gallery added 1832 (£146). (Church badly damaged in arson attack, 1996, and subsequently restored.) |
Refs: | W.S. Ferguson, A.J. Rowan & J.J. Tracey, City of Derry (UAHS, 1970), 28 (no. 56); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 385; J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 149; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 55(illus.) |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. DERRY, DERRY, INFIRMARY ROAD, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | Re-pewing, new pulpit, &c. Contractor: Richard Gailey. (Church badly damaged in arson attack, 1996, and subsequently restored.) |
Refs: | Signed drawing(s), also signed by contractor, Nov 1862, in RCB Library, portfolio 10. |
Name: | FERGUSON, JOHN GUY |
Building: | CO. DERRY, DERRY, INFIRMARY ROAD, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1881-82 |
Nature: | Church almost rebuilt, only side walls and tower of old structure being retained. Addition of 2 transepts and chancel. Estimated cost: £2,000. E window ereccted in memory of Caroline, wife of incumbent. Window in N transept supplied by Mr Wylie in memory of his parents. Given dedication of Christ Church . Reopened, 30 Mar 1882. (Church badly damaged in arson attack, 1996, and subsequently restored.) |
Refs: | Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 71, 7 May 1881, ?; 24, no. 119, 8 Apr 1882, 231; IB 23, 15 May 1881, 159; J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 149; W.S. Ferguson, A.J. Rowan & J.J. Tracey, City of Derry (UAHS, 1970), 28 (no. 56); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 385. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DERRY, DERRY, INFIRMARY ROAD, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1921 |
Nature: | Renovation, costing approx. £2,500, to be undertaken. (Church badly damaged in arson attack, 1996, and subsequently restored.) |
Refs: | IB 63, 7 May 1921, 334 |