Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, WHITEHOUSE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, WHITEHOUSE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1840
Nature: New chapel-of-ease to accommodate 360 in parish of Carnmoney. site donated by John Thomson of Low-wood, Belfast. Opened by licence 28 Jul 1840. Consecrated 29 Jun 1843.  £716.16s. granted by Down & Connor Church Accommodation Society. (Transepts, chapel added later.)
Refs: Christian Examiner, 1, no. 8, 1 Aug 1840, 255;   B.H. Blacker, 'Sketches of Irish Churches' in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 14, no. 152, 23 Nov 1872, 12; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 55(illus.);  exterior ALSO illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 229.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, WHITEHOUSE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1859
Nature: Proposed enlargement by addition of S transept (involving removal of chancel wall?).  (Brett attributes design of adds. to Lanyon.)
Refs: Drawings, signed J. Welland & Son and dated 1859, in RCB Library, portfolio 7 (repr. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org);  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 18 (Sep 1857), 361;  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 55(illus.).

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, WHITEHOUSE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1882
Nature: Stained glass E window (Ascension) erected in memory of Rev. Robert Wintringham Bland (d.1880) and his wife Alicia
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 147, 21 Oct 1882, 754;  Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/window/16440/ (last visited, Apr 2017).