Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BUSHMILLS, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DUNLUCE PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BUSHMILLS, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DUNLUCE PARISH)
Date: 1821
Nature: New church with 3-bay nave and projecting W tower; 'erected by aid of a gift of £900 and a loan of £300 from the…Board, in 1821, on the site of an ancient church, which was a ruin in 1625' (Lewis). Consecrated, 1821.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 585; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 243; Clergy of Connor (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1993), 149;  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 47(illus.);   exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 224.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BUSHMILLS, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DUNLUCE PARISH)
Date: 1875
Nature: Improvements completed. New pulpit of ancaster stone and serpentine marble in memory of late Alexander Montgomery of Birch Hill.  New lectern and prayer desk. Chancel walls painted and decorated and richly illuminated with texts.  Encaustic tile floor laid.

Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 198, 23 Nov 1875, 271.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BUSHMILLS, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DUNLUCE PARISH)
Date: 1890
Nature: Church reopened after renovation and extensive imps.
Refs: IB 32, 1 Oct 1890, 236

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BUSHMILLS, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (CI, DUNLUCE PARISH)
Date: 1897
Nature: Tenders sought for enlarging same.
Refs: IB 39, 1 Apr 1897, 71yh