The originalMarket Cross was built in 1636 but was destroyed by Commonwealth troops in 1653. The original building was less than 11 feet tall and octagonal in shape with a low door and staircase leading to the roof.
The Market House was commissioned by Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry to be the centre of the market town.
The Temple of the Winds, James “˜Athenian’ Stuart’s banqueting hall of 1785, overlooks Strangford Lough. It had small viewing balconies,
Between 1804 and 1806, the London architect George Dance was employed by Alexander Stewart,
Later internal works by Richard Mills Close. After a series of bank mergers and takeovers from the 1970s onwards,
Erected in 1857, the Tower was built by local people as a monument to Charles William Stewart,
Designed in a Jacobean style, the Model School opened in July 1862. One of a ]number of Model Schools around the country,
