Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, SHANKILL ROAD, ALBERT HALL

Name: ROOME, WILLIAM JOHN WATERMAN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, SHANKILL ROAD, ALBERT HALL
Date: 1895-98
Nature: For Rev. Henry Montgomery. Large amphitheatre to seat about 2,000, medical mission , soup kitchent, 4 shops fronting road &c.. For Rev. Henry Mongomery. Designed 1895, FS laid 23 Oct 1897, and completed (in a simplified form) in 1923. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey.
Refs: Builder 73, 30 Oct,6 Nov 1897, 355,378; Building News 74, 4 Mar 1898, 305 (illus.); Paul Larmour, 'From building site to mission field', Perspective May/June 1997, 45;  illus. in  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 157.