Buildings of South County Down (Hardback)

Hardback
236 pages
296 colour photographs
305 x 213mm

This is a companion volume to the late Sir Charles Brett’s Buildings of North County Down, Buildings of County Armagh and Buildings of County Antrim. Like its predecessors this volume does not set out to be an inventory of buildings in the area but rather represents a selection of some of the more important or interesting buildings in south County Down; it covers those parts of the county belonging to the current ‘super council’ of Newry, Mourne and Down and to the pre-2015 Banbridge District Council, now part of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council.

The book follows the same basic format established in the earlier volumes, covering antiquities, churches and chapels, grand houses, small houses and cottages, public and commercial buildings, and follies and monuments. The buildings are described in detail with information on their history, the people involved and other anecdotal snippets. Primary and secondary sources of information relating to each building are provided in footnotes and each entry is illustrated by at least one colour photograph specially taken for the book by Alan Turkington.

Philip Smith is a historian and surveyor who has worked in the field of built heritage since 1997 and has been closely involved with the Second Survey of Buildings in Northern Ireland. He is author of An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Wicklow.