Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CLIFTON STREET, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CLIFTON STREET, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1879-1881
Nature: New church.  Tenders invited, Dec 1879; 'rapidly approaching completion' in Apr 1881. For J.A. Mackie, 181 Mountpottinger Rd. Contractor: John Smith, Whitla St, Belfast. Decorative carving on main doorway 'executed from the architects' sketches' by McKee.(Amalgamated with Clifton Street Presbyterian Church, 1943. Closed, 1971, and subsequently demolished.)
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/2; IB 23, 15 Apr 1881, 18(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 270(illus.).