Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)
Date: 1842-44
Nature: New church. FS laid 24 Aug 1842 by Lord Dungannon. Consecrated 30 Apr 1844.
Refs: Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996),126(illus.).


Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)
Date: 1868-69
Nature: New nave, N aisle & chancel. Consecrated after enlargement 19 May 1869 by Bishop of Down & Connor. Builder: Lowry & Son, Gt George's St, Belfast. Cost: £5,000.
Refs: Unsigned drawing, stamped 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 11; IB 9, 1 May 1867, 111; 11, 1 Jun 1869, 135; B 25, 9 Nov 1867, 828; 27, 29 May 1869, 430;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 126(illus.)

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)
Date: 1875
Nature: Six memorial windows installed.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 193, 22 Jun 1875, 131.

Name: LANYON, JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)
Date: 1876
Nature: New octagonal pulpit of Caen stone with marble columns, executed by A.P. Sharp, Great Brunswick St.
Refs: IB 18, 15 Jun 1876, 181

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, HOLYWOOD, CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP & JAMES (CI)
Date: 1883
Nature: Memorial chancel to late James Alexander, JP, opened 14 Mar. ‘Mock shafts of polished marble, with carved capitals and moulded bands and bases, have been inserted in the joints of the windows, and the stone shafts between have been replaced with polished green Galway marble, and Caen stone shafts have
been introduced under the timber principals of the roof.’ 5 richly moulded arches behind communion tale, carried on shafts of green marble under which there is a band of moulded red Cork marble.

Refs: Irish Ecclesisastical Gazette 25, no. 168, 24 Mar 1883, 242.