Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Name: | O'FARRELL, PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1810-1819 |
Nature: | New church. FS laid 17 Oct 1810. Consecrated 25 Aug 1819. P.O'F builder and original designer, but building supervised by Thomas Duff from 1813. For Lord Kilmorey. Cost: £12,566. |
Refs: | IB 28, 1 May 1886, 135; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225(illus.). |
Name: | DUFF, THOMAS J. [1] |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1813 |
Nature: | TD conducts erection. |
Refs: | 'Newry Jottings' NLI MS. 2202 & 2203 (Crossle MSS?) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); transcript by F.C. Crossle of minutes of meeting of trustees of St Mary's Church, NLI MS 2235; Newry Telegraph 22 Jan 1889; Archaeological Survey of Co. Down (1966), 331(plan),Pl.115; H. Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 7; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 192; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 201. |
Name: | WYATT, MATTHEW COTES *# |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1813p |
Nature: | Monument to Isaac Corry. |
Refs: | Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, 1968), 448; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 88. |
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1817p |
Nature: | Monument to James Wright. |
Refs: | H. Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57 |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1818p |
Nature: | Monument to Acheson Thompson (d. 1818) with full-length figure of religion. |
Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82 |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1819 |
Nature: | Monument to Maj. Gen. Henry Davis, with medallion portrait figure of Fame & military trophies. |
Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82, fig. 31 |
Name: | SMYTH, JOHN [4]* |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1836 |
Nature: | Simple tablet monument to Sarah Hamilton (d. 1836). |
Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 82 |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1883-86 |
Nature: | Renovation & improvements, including new chancel, centre & two side aisles, re-seating and heating. Side galleries to beremoved, roof supported by polished stone columns, box pews ‘which remind one of sheep pens in a cattle show’ to be convertedinto benches, organ to be removed and pulpit and reading desk removed from chancel and placed north and south. Estimated costabout £2000. Encaustic tiling of chancel floor copied from ancient examples found in Christ Church, Dublin, Cost: £2,000. Also new pulpit presented by Mrs Erskine. Reopened 20 Apr 1886. |
Refs: | Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 25, no. 160, 27 Jan 1883, 86; IB 26, 1 Feb 1884, 43; 28, 1 May 1886, 135; Archaeological Survey of Co. Down (1966), 331(plan),Pl.115; J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 110; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 225. |
Name: | HEMS, HARRY *# |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | New oak stalls. |
Refs: | IB 28, 1 Apr 1886, 106 |
Name: | RESIDE, SAMUEL WILSON |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWRY, ST MARY STREET, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | 1917 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for painting & decoration. |
Refs: | IB 59, 3 Feb 1917, 64 |