Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PHILIP OR DREW MEMORIAL CHURCH (CI)

Name: BATT, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PHILIP OR DREW MEMORIAL CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1870-1885
Nature: FS laid 1 Apr 1870. Originally intended to be a school but converted into church and opened for services, Christmas Day, 1870  (though not quite finished). Consecrated, 7 Mar 1872.  Chancel and transepts added by Jul, 1976 creating accommodation for 450 persons. New school built by 1875. N & S aisles and gallery completed 1885. Contractor for 1885 work: Matthew Mansell.
Refs: IB 28, 15 Feb 1886, 52; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 14, no. 154, 22 Mar 1872, 59 18, no. 207, 24 Jul 1876, 212;  John Frederick MacNeice, The church of Ireland in Belfast (Belfast, 1931), 33.

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PHILIP OR DREW MEMORIAL CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1889-1890
Nature: Enlargement of mission hall & school.
Refs: Architect 42, 13 Dec 1889, suppl. p.1; IB 32, 1 May 1890, 112