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 |