Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Corry burial vault
Movilla, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Corry burial vault, Movilla Cemetery, Old Movilla Road, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 2HH
- Townland
- Movilla
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.59563, -5.67444
- Date of survey
- 03 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/08/005
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Large, prominent, tomb in the form of a miniature Greek (decorated) Doric temple.
The ‘temple’ is constructed in Scrabo sandstone and is situated in the north of the present cemetery, near the ruins of Movilla Abbey.
The pediments and eaves are decorated with acroteria and there is a carved wreath with date (1860) in the tympanum of each pediment. The stone work on the tympanum to the N elevation is damaged.
The ceiling and upper inner walls act as carved ‘headstones’ relating to various members of the Corry family. Propped against columns on the ‘inner’ W side of the structure is a 1708 headstone of John Corry.
Historical information
This monument was erected by Robert Corry of Belfast in 1860 on the family burial ground. The most recent interment [?ashes] dates from November 1990.
References- Secondary sources
1 R.S.J. Clarke (compiler) 'Gravestone Inscriptions Vol.13, County Down, Barony of Ards' (U.H.F. Belfast 1975), p. 26.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Family tomb of 1860 constructed in the style of a miniature Greek Doric temple with decorative acroteria.
Nearby in the register
- Movilla AbbeyReligious Houseunder 1 mi
- Movilla Cemetery LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Movilla HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Movilla CemeteryGraveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.