Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, SAUL, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)

Name: BROWN, ALFRED W.
Building: CO. DOWN, SAUL, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1931
Nature: Proposed new Hiberno-Romanesque church to commemorate St Patrick's landing in 432. (Design of Henry Seaver chosen instead.)
Refs: IB 73, 28 Mar 1931, 262 (illus.)

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. DOWN, SAUL, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1933
Nature: New church to commemorate St Patrick's landing in Ireland at Saul. FS laid Ascension Day 1933. Dedicated All Saints' Day 1933. Contractor: Cairns Bros.
Refs: IB 75, 8 Apr,6 May 1933, 292,370; watercolour view by R.H. Gibson exh. RHA 1946,  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996)155(illus.); Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 139(illus.); R. Oram, Expressions of Faith: Ulster's Church Heritage (2001), 91(illus.)