Selected: CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI)
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI) |
Date: | 1831p |
Nature: | Monument to William Montgomery (d. 1831). |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57 |
Name: | CHAPPELL, HENRY |
Building: | CO. DOWN, GREYABBEY, CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR (CI) |
Date: | 1868-9 |
Nature: | New church retaining tower and spire of 1778p. Contractor: John Home (or Howe?). FS laid 22 Jul 1868. Dedicated 2 Oct 1869. ‘Here, over-hanging the ruins of the noble and, perhaps, most beautiful of the abbey churches in Ireland, steps are being taken to erect a church, of the merits of which we would fain speak as leniently as possible, but as to the questionable taste of spending money on plan[n?]ing this mushroom edifice in in contrast with the noble church, which cries out only for a roof, provokes adverse criticism.’ (Irish Churchman). |
Refs: |
Elevation, sections, signed and dated 31 Jul 1868, in Representative Church Body Library, portfolio 11, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/3735 (last visited, Feb 2017); Irish Churchman 1, no. 5, 20 Jun 1868, 67 Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 115(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 192. |