Selected: CO. DOWN, CASTLEWELLAN, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)

Name:	LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building:	CO. DOWN, CASTLEWELLAN, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date:	1847-1853
Nature:	New Gothic cruciform church to seat 800 with pyramidal spire. Built by Earl of Annesley. Said to be 'progressing towards completion' in Aug 1851 but not consecrated until 1 Dec 1853. Suprintending architect: James Murphy, pupil of Lanyon. Contractor: Richard Cherry, Loughgall. Interior stuccowork by James Tighe, Dundrum. Cost £7,000. (Larmour thinks church was probably designed by W.H.Lynn.)
Refs:	Letters re design and erection of church from Rev. J.R. Moore to Charles Lanyon and others, 1847-51, in PRONI, Annesley Papers, 'Letter book for Lord Annesley's affairs', D1854/6/3 (see PRONI e-catalogue); Armagh Guardian, 23 Aug 1851; Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 14, 6 Sep 1851, 480; Slater's Irish Directory (1856); Paul Larmour, 'The father of Ulster architecture', Perspectives (May/Jun 1994), 54; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 171(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 197.