Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1829p
Nature: Rebuilding.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore , 97(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 190.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1837p
Nature: Monument to George Hill (d. 1837) with Good Samaritan relief and kneeling figure of Grief under a willow tree.
Refs: H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 56;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 54(illus.).

Name: PHILLIPS, JAMES JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1895
Nature: New chancel.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/20

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1900
Nature: New pulpit, executed by Harry Hems.
Refs: IB 42, 15 Nov 1900, 554

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1900
Nature: New octagonal pulpit, to designs by Thomas Drew.
Refs: IB 42, 15 Nov 1900, 554

Name: PHILLIPS, JAMES ST JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1912-13
Nature: New transept in 14th century Gothic style. Tenders invited Jun 1912. Ded. 25 Jan 1913 by Rt Rev. Dr Darcy, Bishop of Down & Connor.
Refs: IB 54, 8 Jun 1912, 350; 55, 1 Feb 1913, 83

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed addition of new gallery and tower.
Refs: Signed, undated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 11