54°24′40″N 5°39′50″W / 54.411°N 5.664°W / 54.411; -5.664 Shrigley is a small village in County Down , Northern Ireland about a mile north-west of Killyleagh . It is named after Pott Shrigley in Cheshire. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 456. It lies within the Down District Council area.
10-641: Shrigley may refer to: Places Shrigley, County Down , Northern Ireland Pott Shrigley , a small village and civil parish in Cheshire, England location of Shrigley Hall People David Shrigley (born 1968), British artist Elsie Shrigley (1899–1978), English vegan activist Gordon Shrigley (born 1964), British architect Patricia Shrigley , British video artist Other Shrigley abduction , an attempted forced marriage between an heiress and Edward Gibbon Wakefield Shrigley and Hunt ,
20-508: A copious stream, in 1824, by Messrs. Martin & Co., and were greatly enlarged in 1828: in these works are 13,798 spindles, employing 186 persons, and 244 power-looms attended by 156 persons, constantly engaged in weaving printers' cloths for the Manchester market; and connected with this manufactory are more than 2000 hand-looms in the neighbouring districts. The buildings, which are very spacious and six storeys high, are lighted with gas made on
30-568: A manufacturer of stained glass windows Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shrigley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shrigley&oldid=1211673748 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
40-427: A square tower, supported by eight flying buttresses springing from pinnacles; in each face is a triple pointed opening divided by small foliate-capitaled columns. Above these openings are large circular oculi in which the clock (now entirely disappeared) displayed its four faces. The tower is surmounted by acute angled gable-pediments, with five-lobed ogee centre pieces; four corner pinnacles, the crockets now missing; and
50-490: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shrigley, County Down Shrigley is a small satellite industrial village which grew up around the large six-storey cotton mill built in 1824 by John Martin. In 1836, Shrigley mill had more power looms than any other factory in Ireland . In the following year, Samuel Lewis described it at length: Some large mills were built upon
60-518: The design has much in common with the Rossmore Memorial of about the same date in the Diamond of Monaghan town. The base, surrounded by iron railings, originally with an elaborate lamp at each corner, is square. Upon this, an octagonal arcade of round-headed arches, carried on columns with Ruskinian foliated capitals, surrounds the central shaft, which incorporates the drinking-fountain. Above this rises
70-461: The locality. Most of the workers lived in Killyleagh, but a number of blackstone workers' cottages were built in a cluster along the three streets at the mill gate. During his lifetime, the people of the district resolved to commemorate the contribution John Martin had made to their prosperity; a competition was held in 1870 for designs for a clock tower and drinking fountain in his honour; the premium
80-427: The premises, and the proprietors have erected a steam-engine of 35 horse power.' The original mill was burned down in 1845. It was replaced by a flax-spinning mill, subsequently occupied by United Chrometanners Limited. The Grecian gate pillars, and some of the subsidiary stone buildings, were probably survivors of the original mill and stood until recently. Naturally, the mill became the principal source of employment in
90-533: Was awarded to Timothy Hevey, a young Belfast architect apparently then working with Pugin and Ashlin in Dublin. The work was executed in 1871, and a High Victorian monument was erected at the cross-roads outside the mill gate. John Martin died in 1876 at the age of 79; Timothy Hevey died in 1878 at the age of 33. Between 1968 and 1972, according to the Downpatrick Area Plan, 'a very extensive redevelopment project
100-462: Was completed involving the replacement of the early industrial village, the construction of 154 houses and two shops'. The new construction was suburban in style, and the people were all rehoused in a housing estate on the opposite hillside. Of the original buildings the Martin monument still stands, in isolation, at the mill gate. 1871, designed by Timothy Hevey. A monument of brown stone, in three layers;
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