Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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