Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH)
Name: | CARROLL, THOMAS HENRY * |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1860-63 |
Nature: | Rebuilding, to designs by Welland & Gillespie. |
Refs: | Plan, S & E elevations, gallery plan, signed J. Welland & Son, with appended minutes of meeting of parishioners approving plans, 6 Feb 1860, in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH), also drawing(s) signed by Welland & Gillespie and dated 1861 in RCB Library, portfolio 12; IAA, PKS A03 (Mar,Apr, Sep 1861, pp.39v,89v,90v), bill of quantities, table of timber work, in missing account book (old refs. A/21, A/57); Armagh Guardian, 27 Apr 1860; The Protestant Workman and Lurgan Gazette, 11,18 May 1861,1 18 Jan 1862; DB 3, 15 May 1861, 519; 11, 1 Aug 1869, 175; see also C.E.B. Brett, D., Dunleath, R. Oram & A.J. Rowan, Historic Buildings…in the designated area of the Craigavon Development Commission (UAHS, 1970), 8, which says that part of spire of original church of 1725 was retained; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 237; exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 199. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1860-63;1869 |
Nature: | Rebuilding of church incorporating existing W tower & porches. Cruciform. Early English. Tenders invited, Apr 1860. Contractor: Thomas Henry Carroll. FS laid 1 Jul 1861. Consecrated 8 May 1863. Tower (90' high in black whinstone) and spire (82' high in Dungannon freestone) completed 1869 (Contractor: Robert McConnell). |
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Plan, S & E elevations, gallery plan, signed J. Welland & Son, with appended minutes of meeting of parishioners approving plans, 6 Feb 1860, in RCB Library, MS 139 (C:\WP51\ARCH), also drawing(s) signed by Welland & Gillespie and dated 1861 in RCB Library, portfolio 12; IAA, PKS A03 (Mar,Apr, Sep 1861, pp.39v,89v,90v), bill of quantities, table of timber work, in missing account book (old refs. A/21, A/57); Armagh Guardian, 27 Apr 1860; The Protestant Workman and Lurgan Gazette, 11,18 May 1861,1 18 Jan 1862; DB 3, 15 May 1861, 519; 11, 1 Aug 1869, 175; see also C.E.B. Brett, D., Dunleath, R. Oram & A.J. Rowan, Historic Buildings…in the designated area of the Craigavon Development Commission (UAHS, 1970), 8, which says that part of spire of original church of 1725 was retained; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 237; exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 199236-8(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 426-7. |
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1884 |
Nature: | Internal redecoration. |
Refs: |
Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 291. |
Name: | HANNA, JAMES A. |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Alts. & renovation. |
Refs: | IB 53, 15 Apr 1911, 246; IA & C 1, 8 Apr 1911, 145 |
Name: | HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1917ca |
Nature: | Stained glass window in N transept. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 427. |
Name: | ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1930-31 |
Nature: | Extension and beautifying of chancel Church re-opened 1931. Cost:: £1,900. |
Refs: | IB 72, 1 Feb 1930, 111; 73, 11 Apr 1931, 324 |
Name: | HANNA, DENIS O'DONOGHUE |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI, SHANKILL PARISH) |
Date: | 1938 |
Nature: | Oak panelling in west porch. |
Refs: | IB 80, 14 May 1938, 414 |