Selected: CO. DERRY, CASTLEROCK, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
| Name: | HUNTER, WILLIAM |
| Building: | CO. DERRY, CASTLEROCK, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1868-1870 |
| Nature: | WH supervises building of new Early English church with tower and spire designed by F.W. Porter, London.. |
| Refs: | IB 12, 1 Jul 1870, 146; B 28, 16 Jul 1870, 572 |
| Name: | PORTER, FREDERICK WILLIAM |
| Building: | CO. DERRY, CASTLEROCK, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1868-1870 |
| Nature: | New Early English church with tower and spire. To accommodate 200. Opened Jul 1870. Cost: about £3,000. Supervising Architect: William Hunter, architect to the Church Commissioners. Contractor: George & Robert Ferguson, Derry. Stained glass windows in chancel erected at expense of Lady Bruce; central on in memory of her uncle, Gen. Sr Arthur Benjamein Clifton. |
| Refs: |
Contract drawing, signed by FWP, May 1868, and contractors in RCB Library, portfolio 10, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 19 (no. 79, illus.); IB 10, 1 Aug 1868, 195; 12, 1 Jul 1870, 146; B 28, 16 Jul 1870, 572; J.B. Leslie, Derry Clegy and Parishes (1937), 145; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 19 (no. 79, illus.); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 186; James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1914 (1986), 395; illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 54, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 166. |
| Name: | WAILES, WILLIAM *# |
| Building: | CO. DERRY, CASTLEROCK, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1891 |
| Nature: | Triple lancet W window filled with stained glass by Wailes & Strang as memorial to late Lady Bruce. |
| Refs: |
Building News 62, 1 Jan 1892, 5; Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3347/ (last visited, Dec 2014). |