Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1896-1900
Nature: Gothic revival, with some Irish revival detail. Opened, tho' only chancel, transepts and 1 bay of nave completed, 29 Jun 1900. Builder: H. Laverty & Sons. Terracotta panel over altar by George Tinworth. (Damaged in explosion, Jul 1987, and subsequently restored.)
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/22; B 79, 21 Jul 1900, 61; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 72-78,133 (Pls. 106-129); Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 73(illus.),74(illus.),75;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 220.

Name: TINWORTH, GEORGE *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1900a
Nature: Terra cotta panel over communion table.
Refs: B 79, 21 Jul 1900, 61.

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1903;1910
Nature: 'handsomest carved organ case in Ireland' installed, 1903; choir stalls, 1910.
Refs: IB 45, ? ? 1903, 1658; 52, ? ? 1910, 197

Name: CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1931-1934
Nature: Completion of western end of church (i.e. remainder of nave, west front and tower) designed by S.P. Close. Tenders invited Mar 1932.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/22; IB 73, 5,19 Dec 1931, 1050,1101; 74, 12 Mar,19 Nov 1932, 252,1052; Architect & Building News 129, 11 Dec 1931, 330; 130, 18,25 Mar 1932, 382,384,408; 131, 17 Jun 1932, 405; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 63 (no. 143)

Name: HARDING, MORRIS *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI)
Date: 1932
Nature: Side chapel reredos, 'The Ascension'.
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 63 (no. 143)