Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: O'FARRELL, PATRICK
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1810-1819
Nature: New church. FS laid 17 Oct 1810. Consecrated 25 Aug 1819. P.O'F builder and original designer, but building supervised by Thomas Duff from 1813. For Lord Kilmorey. Cost: £12,566.
Refs: IB 28, 1 May 1886, 135;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225(illus.).

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1813
Nature: TD conducts erection.
Refs: 'Newry Jottings' NLI MS. 2202 & 2203 (Crossle MSS?) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); transcript by F.C. Crossle of minutes of meeting of trustees of St Mary's Church, NLI MS 2235; Newry Telegraph 22 Jan 1889; Archaeological Survey of Co. Down (1966), 331(plan),Pl.115; H. Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 7; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 192;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 201.

Name: WYATT, MATTHEW COTES *#
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1813p
Nature: Monument to Isaac Corry.
Refs: Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, 1968), 448; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 88.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1817p
Nature: Monument to James Wright.
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1818p
Nature: Monument to Acheson Thompson (d. 1818) with full-length figure of religion.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1819
Nature: Monument to Maj. Gen. Henry Davis, with medallion portrait figure of Fame & military trophies.
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82, fig. 31

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1836
Nature: Simple tablet monument to Sarah Hamilton (d. 1836).
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1883-86
Nature: Renovation & improvements, including new chancel, centre & two side aisles, re-seating and heating. Side galleries to beremoved, roof supported by polished stone columns, box pews ‘which remind one of sheep pens in a cattle show’ to be convertedinto benches, organ to be removed and pulpit and reading desk removed from chancel and placed north and south. Estimated costabout £2000. Encaustic tiling of chancel floor copied from ancient examples found in Christ Church, Dublin, Cost: £2,000. Also new pulpit presented by Mrs Erskine. Reopened 20 Apr 1886.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 25, no. 160, 27 Jan 1883, 86;  IB 26, 1 Feb 1884, 43; 28, 1 May 1886, 135; Archaeological Survey of Co. Down (1966), 331(plan),Pl.115; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 110; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225.

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1886
Nature: New oak stalls.
Refs: IB 28, 1 Apr 1886, 106

Name: RESIDE, SAMUEL WILSON
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1917
Nature: Tenders invited for painting & decoration.
Refs: IB 59, 3 Feb 1917, 64