Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, CHURCH OF ST COMGALL (CI)

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, CHURCH OF ST COMGALL (CI)
Date: 1880-82;1892;1899
Nature: New church in dark basalt rubble. FS laid 18 Sep 1880; consecrated 8 Aug 1882. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey.  Cost 'upwards of £6000'. Chancel added and ded. 4 Jun 1892. Spire built 1898-99; completed 8 Jun 1899.  Builder of spire: McLaughlin & Harvey;  estimated cost £2,500.  (Church damaged by fire, Jun 2012.)
Refs: IB 19, 1 Dec 1877, 358; 22, 1 Oct 1880, 278; 40, 15 Apr 1898, 64;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 126. 27 May 1882, 375; no. 138, 19 Aug 1882,.579;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996) 49(illus.); Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 39-40; exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),  185.


Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, CHURCH OF ST COMGALL (CI)
Date: 1914
Nature: Stained-glass window (The Knight)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 43.