Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, GROOMSPORT, CHURCH (CI)

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, GROOMSPORT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1842
Nature: New church, built as chapel-of-ease to Bangor with funds from Down & Connor Church Accommodation Society. First service held 11 Dec 1842 but church not consecrated until 2 Feb 1850.
Refs: Letters from James Sands re the rebuilding of Groomsport House and building of Groomsport church, 1841-1848, in PRONI, Perceval-Maxwell Papers, D1556 (see PRONI e-catalogue, Perceval-Maxwell Papers);  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 117-118(illus.);  Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 65;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 192.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DOWN, GROOMSPORT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1877a
Nature: 3-light window representing Transfiguration.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 213, 1 Jan 1877, 17.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, GROOMSPORT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1909
Nature: Addition of chancel, new pews and new hammer-beam roof.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 117-118(illus.).

Name: HANNA, JAMES A.
Building: CO. DOWN, GROOMSPORT, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1932
Nature: Addition of N & S transepts in Conlig stone with dressings of artificial stone and stained glass emblems by Denis O'Dea Hanna..
Refs: Architect & Building News 130, 24 Jun 1932, 472; IB 74, 2 Jul 1932, 614; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 117-118(illus.); Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 66.