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. |