Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (& PARK ROAD), COOKE CENTENARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: FENNELL, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (& PARK ROAD), COOKE CENTENARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1890-92
Nature: New Gothic church.  FS laid Jul 1890; opened, 1 May 1892. Contractor: Henry Laverty and Sons Ltd.
Refs: Design exh,. RHA 1891, no. 495; PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/6; IB 34, 1 May 1892, 109; B 75, 19 Nov 1898, 452; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 69 (sub no. 158);  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 167. Information re Laverty contractors from obituary to John Laverty in a Belfast newspaper, July 1909, sent by Henry Laverty, August 2017.