Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1831-32
Nature: New church, built for Earl Annesley as a chapel-of-ease for Kilcoo parish. First service held 18 Nov 1832 but not consecrated until 1 Dec 1853.
Refs: Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 17(no.62);  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 223(illus.); Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 35-36(illus.);  exterior of church also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 201.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1876-77
Nature: Addition of chancel and other 'needful alterations and additions', including removal of ceiling and sheeting of roof with varnished timber. Cost of improvements: £928.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 18, no. 208, 23 Aug 1876, 252; 19, no. 222, 1 Sep 1877, 278;  Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 223

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: 3-light window in chancel.  Circular scrolls containing 8 Blessings, with foliage and flower work.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 237, 1 Dec 1878, 356;  Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 223.

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1902
Nature: Addition of transept.
Refs: IB 44, ? ? 1902, 1348; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 223

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1916
Nature: 3-light window (Faith, Love, Work)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 43