Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, NO. 161-163 (BELFAST BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, NO. 161-163 (BELFAST BANK)
Date: 1884
Nature: 2-storey, 4-bay red sandstone builidng on corner of Gloucester St. Contractor: H. & J. Martin.
Refs: Signed and dated elevation in collection of Northern Bank Ltd, Belfast Bank Index 60, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 25 (no. 127); Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 53-4,128 (Pls. 76,77); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 320