Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (BALLYNAFEIGH), CHURCH OF ST JUDE (CI)

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (BALLYNAFEIGH), CHURCH OF ST JUDE (CI)
Date: 1869-73;1889;1898-99
Nature: New church to accommodate 400 persons. Designed 1869; FS laid 22 Jul 1871; licensed for worship 22 Mar 1873 & consecrated 7 Aug 1873. Cost £3,350 Extension (transepts, lengthening of chancel), 1889; boundary wall & gates, 1891; extension (S aisle), 1898-99. Original contractor: William Fitzpatrick (who donated site & tower)
Refs: Signed and dated drawing(s) in RCB Library, portfolio 11; B 31, 16 Aug 1873, 652; IB 13, 1 Aug 1871, 203; 15, 1 Sep 1873, 240; 42, 15 Jan 1900, 246; John Frederick MacNeice, The church of Ireland in Belfast (Belfast, 1931), 35-36;  Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 42 (no. 85, illus.); J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 30;  Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 59(illus.);  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 186.

Name: FITZPATRICK BROS. *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (BALLYNAFEIGH), CHURCH OF ST JUDE (CI)
Date: ?
Nature: Pulpit carved by TF and his brother and presented by them to the church.
Refs: Brett (2nd ed.), 48; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 42 (no. 85)