Tullanisken Parish Church, Newmills
Tullanisken Parish Church, Newmills
Holy Trinity, Tullanisken, is a Grade B Church of Ireland parish church on Farlough Road, Newmills, County Tyrone, in the Diocese of Armagh: a 1793 church enlarged in 1864–65.
- Location
- Newmills, County Tyrone
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- County
- County Tyrone
- City / town
- Newmills
- Address
- Farlough Road, Newmills, County Tyrone, BT71 4DX
- Postcode
- BT71 4DX
- Built
- 1793; transepts, robing room and apse 1864–65
- Consecrated
- 1 September 1865 (enlarged church)
- Architect
- Welland and Gillespie (1864–65 additions)
- Denomination
- Church of Ireland
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Armagh
- Parish
- Tullanisken
- Grade
- B
- Style
- Later English Gothic, with an embattled square tower
- Materials
- Uncoursed rubble; pitched slate roof
- Opening hours
- Please contact our church by email or through our Facebook page, Tullanisken Parish and visiting beyond worship will be arranged.
- Access
- Level access throughout
- Website
- https://www.tullanisken.org/
Overview
The parish history and Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary record that the medieval church was destroyed in 1641. In the reign of Charles II the parish was united with Drumglass and the church remained in ruins until 1792, when Primate Robinson dissolved the union and built the present church near the ancient site, in later English style with an embattled square tower, at a cost of £553. A gallery was added in 1823. The Dictionary of Irish Architects records Welland & Gillespie’s 1864 addition of transepts, a robing room and a three-sided apse; the contractor was John Jennings, and the Lord Primate consecrated the enlarged church on 1 September 1865.
Stone Database NI describes a Gothic Revival church of nave with pointed-arch windows, transepts, corner vestry and apse-ended chancel, fronted by a square bell tower with cornice, crenellations and a recessed pointed-arch doorway, under a pitched slate roof (HB13/15/019). A medieval church fragment remains visible in the graveyard. The Tullanisken Bell, unearthed in 1863 and dated to about 900, is in the National Museum of Ireland. Northern Ireland listing is Grade B; there is no Historic England or Cadw list entry. Visits can be arranged through the parish; the church has level access throughout.