Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, TOWNSEND STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, TOWNSEND STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH |
Date: | 1878a |
Nature: | New Romanesque church on site of church of 1833, for Rev. William Johnstone. Scrabo freestone. Opened 13 Oct 1878. Cost: £10,000. Contractor: McCammond. Intended to build 190ft spire over staircase next to Cargill St at a future date. School and sexton's houise at rear. |
Refs: |
PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/2; Belfast New Letter, 30 Sep 1878, 7; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 51; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 126(illus.),161(illus.),266-267(illus.),338. (Y &M also designed organ case as WW1 memorial.) |
Name: | RHIND, ETHEL * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, TOWNSEND STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH |
Date: | 1913;1921-22 |
Nature: | Stained glass windows: Pilgrim's Progress, 2 lights, 1913; Parables, 2 lights, 1921-22. Attributed to ER by Bowe, Caron & Wynne. |
Refs: | Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (1988), 32 |