Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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