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 |