Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, GROOMSPORT ROAD, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBANUS (CI, BALLYHOLME PARISH)

Name: HILL, ROBERT SHARPE
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, GROOMSPORT ROAD, CHURCH OF ST COLUMBANUS (CI, BALLYHOLME PARISH)
Date: 1939-1940
Nature: New church on site of wooden hall of 1927. FS laid 6 Jul 1939. Consecrated 22 Jun 1940. Stone from Roxborough Castle, Moy, Co. Tyrone, & bell from St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Builder: Sutherland, Montgomery & Co. £7,500.
Refs: IB 81, 22 Jul 1939, 637,641;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 43(illus.); Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 89;  exterioralso illus. in Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 184.