Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD (BALLYMACARRETT), WESTBOURNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD (BALLYMACARRETT), WESTBOURNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1877-180
Nature: New church to accommodate 700 with round tower 150 ft high, for Belfast church Building Society. Designed by R.M. Young.  External walls of local Silurian slate with Scrabo sandstone dressings. FS laid 17 Dec 1877. Expected to cost £3,000.Builder: J. Russell, Donegall Pass. Opened, 10 Oct 1880.
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/2; IB 20, 1 Jan 1878, 4,7(illus.); B 36, 12 Jan 1878, 47;  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006),166 (illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 47(illus.),147(illus.),267-8.