Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LOWER FALLS ROAD, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LOWER FALLS ROAD, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1861-63;1869
Nature: New district church 'according to plans by the architects to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners'. Begun early 1862. Consecrated 1863. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. Addition of another bay to nave and new chancel with adjoining room, 1869.  Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. (Church closed, 2006.)
Refs: Sogned elevation, 17 May 1861, and contract drawings for extension, signed 27 Feb 1869, in RCB Library, portfolio 6 (illus. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org);  DB 3, 1 Jun 1861, 530; 4, 15 Feb 1862, 44;  John Frederick MacNeice, The Church of Ireland in Belfast (Belfast, 1931),24.

Name: HEMS, HARRY *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LOWER FALLS ROAD, CHURCH OF ST LUKE (CI)
Date: 1909a
Nature: Art work recently executed at same.
Refs: IB 51, ? ? 1909, 65