placenamesNewtownbreda
Baile Nua na Bréadaí
An eighteenth-century parish church and a twentieth-century Baptist congregation record successive phases of local religious life.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Nua na Bréadaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Newtownbreda · English · main form
Place & story
Knockbreda Parish Church
Knockbreda Parish Church on Church Road dates to about 1737 and was designed by Richard Cassels. Its tower rises to an octagonal spire above a pedimented entrance. The building acquired an apsidal chancel designed by Thomas Drew around 1883, adding a Victorian layer to the earlier church. Stone memorials and mausolea surround it within the walled burial ground. [2]
A congregation on the move
Newtownbreda Baptist Church traces its beginnings to a small group meeting in an upstairs room at the Inns Shops. Its own account records a subsequent move to School Road, followed by a new building on Newtownbreda Road in 1979. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Knockbreda
- Coordinates
- 54.55123, -5.91330 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130141 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newtownbreda. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Knockbreda Parish Church: HB25/16/005 A · Department for Communities, Historic Buildings survey
- About Us: Our History · Newtownbreda Baptist Church
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.