Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, TOWN HALL

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, TOWN HALL
Date: 1868-1870
Nature: Building of Alexander Tate's design supervised by SPC
Refs: IB 10, 1 Aug 1878, 195; Architect 11, ? ? 1874, 242; RHA 1875, no. 227

Name: TATE, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, TOWN HALL
Date: 1868-1870
Nature: New French Gothic town hall with museum and public reading room.  Paid for by Charles McGarel, DL. Opened 25 Aug 1870. Acting clerk of Works: S.P.Close. Builder: Stewart & Co., Belfast.. Cost: £5,500.
Refs: Estimates and specification for town hall museum, 1868, in PRONI, LA/1/8/JA/117/1,2 (see PRONI e-catalogue); IB 10, 1 Aug 1868, 195; 12, 1,15 Sep 1870, 209,218-9; Architect 4, 24 Sep 1870, 180; 11, 25 Apr 1874, 242(illus.).