Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)
Date: 1835-1837
Nature: New cruciform church, consecrated 7 Nov 1837. Simple cruciform shape
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996 ,  232(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 201.

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)
Date: 1855
Nature: Marble tablet to Captain Francis Crozier, showing the ships of Sir John Franklin's expedition in search of the |North West Passage frozen in the ice.
Refs: Working model of monument 'now erecting' exh. RHA 1855, 388; H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 55

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)
Date: 1864-1867
Nature: Alts. & adds.; new north aisle, replacing N transept, and chancel. Cost: £2,000. Tenders invited, Jun 1864.  Church reopened Apr 1867.
Refs: Signed design, dated 1865, for enlargement (new N aisle, N transept, chancel, robing room, N porch) in RCB Library, portfolio 12;  Armagh Guardian, 3 Jun 1864;   IB 9, 1 May 1867, 111; Handbook of the United Dicese of Down & Connor & Dromore (Belfast, 1886), 121;m Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 232(illus.)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)
Date: 1871-1883
Nature: Rebuilding. New chancel, organ chamber, side aisle, removal of gallery, repewing of old part of church, providing about 200 extra suttubgs. New reredos incorporating alabaster panels from rood screen of Christ Church, Dublin. Builder: Dixon, Belfast. Plans 'just completed', Feb 1882.  Reopened 13 Jun 1883.
Refs: IB 13, 15 Dec 1871, 331; 18, 1 May 1876, 133(illus.); 24, 15 Dec 1882, 359(illus.); 25, 1 Jan,15 May,15 Jun 1883, 15(illus.),162,191 (& 212?);  Irish Times, 27 Feb 1882;  B 44, 23 Jun 1883, 862; B 95, 4 Jul 1908, 24 (advt. for tender); Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 112, 25 Feb 1882, 134;; 25, no. 160, 2 Jan 1883, 86; no. 174, 25 May 1883, 372;   Handbook of the United Diocese of Down & Connor & Dromore (Belfast, 1886), 121; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 101; Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 232(illus.)

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, SEAPATRICK PARISH)
Date: ?
Nature: Oak chancel furniture, 'once owned by the Admiralty and originally intended for use on board ship'.
Refs: Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 232