Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, KILWARLIN UPPER, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1840
Nature: New Gothic church. Major share of cost borne by Down & Connor Church Accommodation Society. Opened 28 Nov 1840; consecrated 9 Dec 1842.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 143-144(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013),  194.


Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, KILWARLIN UPPER, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1871
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for enlargement of church by extension of nave and addition of vestry and chancel. (Vestry was added in 1876 to designs by unknown architect.)
Refs: Plan, s. & d. 20 Dec 1871, in AA, Acc. 2012/56.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, KILWARLIN UPPER, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1882
Nature: Church reopened, 27? Aug 1882, 'after a number of improvements and repairs'.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 140, 2 Sep 1882, 618.

Name: COATES, FRANCIS *
Building: CO. DOWN, KILWARLIN UPPER, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass in chancel.
Refs: Anne Casement, 'William Vitruvius Morrison's scheme fore Mount Stewart, County Down: was it ever realised?', Irish Architectural and Decorative studies 7 (2004), 57.