Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, CROSSGAR, LISSARA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, CROSSGAR, LISSARA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1865-67
Nature: New church in Transitional style, next to Market House. Turret and slated spire, rose window over doorway. 5 buttressed bays on each side. Accommodated 500 people. Cost £1,500. Opened 14 Apr 1867.
Refs: B 23, 9 Sep 1865, 649; IB 9, 1 May 1867, 111; 11, 1 Apr 1869, 80; Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 44,Pl.15; C.E.B. Brett, Historic Buildings…in…East Down (UAHS, 1973),8(illus),49;  illus. in Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006),  224.