churches historical strangford

At Saul, itself, a Celtic revival style Anglican church (with a round tower adjoining the chancel) on the site of an important twelth century monastery is where St Patrick's abbey is thought to have bee. In the churchyard is an early Christian mortuary house. Built in 1932 by the Church of Ireland to commemorate the fifteenth centenary of the saint's landfall, the church contains a thirteenth century font basin and a small, informative permanent exhibition....

The church is of uncertain date; it is a broad rectangle in plan, and was heavily restored in 1915 but more carefully in 1989. Unusually, it has a door in the north and south as well as the east wall. Its most interesting feature is the broken lintel over the east window (possibly re-used from an earlier church?), which has equal-armed crosses lightly incised on its interior face. Beneath it a grave was found during excavations in 1915, and was claimed to be that of St, Tassach himself. To t...