Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: CORRY, ROBERT *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: 1898-1901
Nature: Built by RC to designs by S.P. Close.
Refs: IB 40, 1 Sep 1898, 133; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 64, no. 144(illus.); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 116-117,119(illus.)

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: 1899-1901
Nature: New church and lecture hall 'in early Perpendicular style with a Scottish Baronial note' (Larmour). Apse, 5-bay nave, transepts. Cost: £16,000. Design selected in competition. Builder: R. Corry. Opened 28 Apr 1901
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/31; IB 41, 15 Oct 1899, 156; 43, 23 May 1901, 736; B 80, 18 May 1901, 494; A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 39,40(illus.); UAHS: Malone & Stranmillis, 116; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 64 (no. 144, illus.); Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 79-82,130 (Pls. 136-140); Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 73(illus.),75

Name: CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: 1915
Nature: Proposed completion of lecture hall & school house (unexecuted); funds from Henry Musgrave.
Refs: Ib 57, 10 Apr,20 Nov 1915, 173,506; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 116-7

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: 1934
Nature: Adds.
Refs: IB 76, 10 Mar 1934, 202

Name: PURDY & MILLARD *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: ?
Nature: Pulpit by P & M.
Refs: IB 47, ? ? 1905, 194

Name: DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 048 (FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)
Date: ?
Nature: Acheson Memorial Window by WJD & Sons.
Refs: Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 117