Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1808
Nature: 'The church...is a plasin neat edifice...it was thoroughly repaired, enlarged and modernmosed in 1808, when the tower was taken down, and the original oaken roof replaced with one of slate, cjoef;u at the expense of Bishop Percy...' (Lewis).
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), i, 508.

Name: WESTMACOTT, RICHARD (SIR) #
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1811p
Nature: Memorial tablet to Bishop Thomas Percy (1729-1811).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 87.

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1856a
Nature: Extensive repairs.
Refs: Slater's Directory of Ireland (1856)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1869-71
Nature: New apse in memory of Bishop Jeremy Taylor and north aisle. Builder: Walter Doolin (£1,500)..
Refs: Drawing(s) dated 1869 in RCB Library, portfolio12; Architect 2, 16 Oct 1869, 195; IB 11, 1 Aug 1869, 187; 12, 1 Jan 1870, 4; B 27, 31 Jul 1869, 615; 29, 14 Jan 1871, 32-33; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 104; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 182

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: Chancel latedly decorated in polychrome by Robert Mannix, Harcourt St, dublin, 'under suggestion of' Thomas Drew.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 214, 1 Feb 1877, 46.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1879
Nature: Low wall with railing enclosing graveyard built in place of high wall. Cost: £300.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 21, no. 249, 1 Dec 1879, supplement, p.3.

Name: HOBART, HENRY WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1898
Nature: Extension of N aisle to W end (Harding Memorial Aisle).
Refs: IB 40, 1 Jul 1898, 100; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 182(illus.).

Name: DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH *
Building: CO. DOWN, DROMORE, CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER (CI)
Date: 1935?
Nature: Window designed and carried out Messrs. W.J. Douglas & Sons.
Refs: Publicityb rochure of W.J. Douglas & Sons, post 1935, citing Belfast Telegraph, 16 Jan 1935.