Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, MAIN STREET, TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (2ND)

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, MAIN STREET, TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (2ND)
Date: 1887-1888
Nature: New Gothic church to seat 700 and schools.. Early Perpendicular. Yorkshire stone, dressed with stone from Glebe quarries.Opened 29 Jul 1888. Builder: H. Laverty & Son
Refs: IB 29, 15 Mar 1887, 91; 30, 15 Aug 1888, 216; RHA 1888, no. 438;  Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 57,129; Marcus Patton, Historic Buildings in…Bangor and Groomsport (UAHS, 1984), 120; Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 74.