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n his grave. The incised cross and the lettering of his 

 name arc copied from coeval authorities. 



This church was rebuilt according to modern ideas of 

 Gothic art as they existed in the eighteenth century, and 

 the remnant of the round tower was removed as unsightly 

 and dangerous. The battle-flags of County Down regiments 

 have been hung in this church, and should be inspected. 

 It also contains a number of interesting monuments, includ- 

 ing one of the Cromwell family. 



C/u/tr/i of St. Nicholas, Carrickfergus. — From an anti- 

 quarian point of view this church is the most interesting one 

 in the united diocese, and is a suggestive object-lesson of 

 how a great church — a sister church to St. Nicholas of 

 Galway — possessing nave and aisles, transepts, side chapels, 

 and all the attributes that render a church a dignified and 

 noble structure, both reverend and attractive, can, by time 

 and a series of successive changes, each one on the down- 

 ward grade, alter the whole from the full beauty it once 

 possessed to a much smaller and debased structure. For a 

 complete history of these changes, we must refer the reader 

 to the report of Sir Thomas Drew to the Diocese in 

 1874. 



The lines of the nave arches are still traceable on the 

 exterior of the south side. Notice should be taken of the 

 Chichester monument, which of its kind is very fine, and 

 records about the founder of the house of Donegall "not 

 what he was, but what he should have been." One group 

 of churches on Loughinisland, near Crossgar, is particularly 

 interesting. 



Numerous other smaller churches, their ruins or their 

 sites, are to be found in every parish. The one, however, 

 which will excite most admiration is the IJishop Jeremy 

 Taylor church at Ballinderry, now completely restored. 

 It was built at the Restoration by the learned Bishop of 

 Down, who did not, however, live to see it completed. 

 It was here he took refuge from the Puritans, and here many 

 of his works were penned. The church itself is quaint and 

 simple, with its heavy oak from the now denuded forests of 

 Ballinderry, and its square windows. The interior still pre- 

 serves all the original oak fittings, as constructed in the time 



