Milltown House is a historic building in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
The two-storey gabled cottage-style house and gate lodge was constructed in c. 1836 for Major John Humphreys (father of Cecil Frances Alexander), agent to the 2nd Marquess of Abercorn (later created, in 1868, the 1st Duke of Abercorn), and was designed by William Vitruvius Morrison.[1] At the age of fifteen, Irish hymn-writer and poet, Cecil Frances Alexander,[2] moved into Milltown House, with her family. While living there she wrote and had published a number of books, verses and hymns.[3][4][5][6]
The building was the former site of Strabane Grammar School, and during the transition to Strabane Academy at their new building on the High School site, functioned as the Sixth Form College. It has been vacant since January 2020. In July that year it was subject to an arson attack and suffered substantial damage.
^A. M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 123
^"Hymn society of Great Britain and Ireland". www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk.
^"Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-95)". ricorso.net. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^Cox, Michael (2006). Overlooking the River Mourne: Four Centuries of Family Farms in Edymore and Cavanalee in County Tyrone. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-903688-44-1. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^Winn, Christopher (31 March 2012). I Never Knew That About Ireland. Random House. p. 286. ISBN 978-1-4481-4607-9. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^an English rendering of the ancient Gaelic hymn...Alexander did not read Gaelic but worked from several literal and unmusical English translations sent to her by H.H. Dickinson, dean of the Chapel Royal at Dublin Castle. Jones, Gloria G. (1999). "Cecil Frances Alexander". In Thesing, William B. (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 199. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. pp. 8–12. ISBN 0787618543.
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