Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1841-44
Nature: New church, probably designed by WF or Joseph Welland. Cruciform with W tower (not executed), N & S porches off transepts. Battlemented with decorated bellcote on W gable. Design approved 1841. Dedicated 1843. Opened Oct 1844. Consecrated 3 May 1845.
Refs: Unsigned drawing, inscr. 'Approved 1841' and 'Dedicated 1843', in RCB Library, portfolio 12;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 215-6(illus.).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1841-44
Nature: New church, probably designed by Joseph Welland or William Farrell. Cruciform with W tower (not executed), N & S porches off transepts. Battlemented with decorated bellcote on W gable. Design approved 1841. Dedicated 1843. Opened Oct 1844. Consecrated 3 May 1845.
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawings in RCB;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 217(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 200.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1882
Nature: Handsonme stained glass window erected in memory of Charles Douglass, of Grace Hall, by his nephew and heir, John Blacker Douglass, of Elm Paqrk, Armagh
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 118, 1 Apr 1882, 212.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1890-91
Nature: New chancel and remodelling of N aisle, 1890-91, at estimated cost of £4,900. 'The architect...has removed an unsightly barnlike structure, and substitued for it a handsome and commodious structure in the Perpendicular style of architecture' (Irish Times). FS of new chancel laid by Mrs Christie-Miller, Aug 1890. Consecrated by Bishop of Down, 22 Sep 1891. Builder: Collen Bros., Portadown. Also new reredos with finials which were perceived as 'ritualistic crosses' and had to be removed as condition of Mr Wakefield Christie-Miller's gift of the tower (erected 1898),
Refs: IB 32, 15 Aug 1890, 201; 33, 1 May 1891, 106;  Irish Times, 27 Aug 1890, 29 Sep 1891;  Lurgan Mail, 3 Oct 1891; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 216-7.

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1897-98
Nature: Tower. Gift of Wakefield Christie-Miller (d. 1897). Dedicated by Bishop of Down and Connor, 12 Apr 1898. Builder: J.Campbell, Belfast.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/27;  Irish Times, 15 Apr 1898;  IB 40, 15 Apr 1898, 64; Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), Part 1, 217(illus.)

Name: CHILD, ALFRED ERNEST *
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1908-9
Nature: 2-light window (SS Comgall & Finian)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 43

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, MAGHERALIN, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Gallery.
Refs: Undated design in RCB Library, portfolio 12