Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1816-17 |
Nature: | New church built, largely at expense of Viscount Castlereagh. Perpendicular Gothic. 'The church, a handsome cruciform edifice, was built in 1817, at an expense of £5446, of which £831 was a gift and £3692 a loan from the…Board [of First Fruits]'(Lewis). |
Refs: |
Date 1817 on downpipe at SW corner of church; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 436; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 196-7,198,240(n.27); Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 150(illus.); exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 194. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1844 |
Nature: | Addition of chancel.. |
Refs: | Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 150. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1865-66 |
Nature: | Addition of N aisle (existing N transept removed), W porch, E robing room. Rose windows at E & W ends (of aisle or nave?) Glass in E window by Wailes, Newcastle. Cost: £2,000. Contractors: Jennings & Johnston. |
Refs: |
Signed drawing(s) inscr. with date of contract (1865) in RCB Library, portfolio 11; DB 8, 1 Dec 1866, 288; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996) 150. |
Name: | WAILES, WILLIAM *# |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1866 |
Nature: | Glass in rose window at E end. |
Refs: | DB 8, 1 Dec 1866, 288 |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1868 |
Nature: | Pulpit, executed by Earley & Powell, Dublin. For Elizabeth, Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry. Rearrrangement contemplated to position new pulpit, rprayer desk, lecter and font in proper places. |
Refs: | Irish Churchman 1, no. 5, 20 Jun 1868, 66; Handbook of the United Diocese of Down & Connor & Dromore (Belfast, 1886), 55 |
Name: | EARLEY & POWELLS * |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1868 |
Nature: | Pulpit, executed to designs by Thomas Drew. For Elizabeth, Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry. |
Refs: | Handbook of the United Diocese of Down & Connor & Dromore (Belfast, 1886), 55 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | Extensive renovation. |
Refs: | IB 42, ? ? 1900, 347 |