Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, KILMORE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, KILMORE, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1868-1870
Nature: New church to seat 300 on site on glebe lands, immediately opposite rectory.. Early French Gothic, with nave (57 x 23 ft.), aisle, apsidal chancel and tower at SE angle. Local stone with Glasgow and Scrabo stone dressings. Interior columns of Castle Espie limestone, a co. Down stone newly appeared on the market. Builder: James Murphy, Belfast; estimated cost £3,000. FS laid 7 Apr 1868. Consecrated 13 Oct 1870. (Deconsecrated, 1976, dismantled and re-erected at Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra, Co. Down.)
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 11;  IB 10, 15 Jan,15 Apr 1868, 24,103; 11, 1 Apr 1869, 80,81(illus.);  Irish Churchman 1, no. 3, 40; 2, no. 3. 17 Apr 1869, 34(illus.);  William Fullerton, Architectural Examples in Brick, Stone, Wood and Iron (3rd edn. [1914]), Pls. 22,l46; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 107;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996)140(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 194.