Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CASTLEREAGH ROAD (& LEITRIM STREET), MCQUISTON MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CASTLEREAGH ROAD (& LEITRIM STREET), MCQUISTON MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1896-97
Nature: New Gothic church of red brick with white sandstone dressings with large square buttressed tower with spire and pinnacle with stone spirelet on other side of main gable. For congregation of Willowfield Presbyterian Church. Memorial stones laid 28 Mar 1896. Contractor: Robert Corry. Opened, 28 Feb 1897. Overall cost: £5,500.
Refs: B 70, 11 Apr 1896, 325;  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 166(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 153(illus.),278(illus.).
 


Name: MACGEAGH, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CASTLEREAGH ROAD (& LEITRIM STREET), MCQUISTON MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1932
Nature: Add., for Committee of McQuiston Memorial church.
Refs: IB 74, 2 Jul 1932, 614