Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, HILL STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (2ND)

Name: MCNEA, JAMES
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, HILL STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (2ND)
Date: 1861p
Nature: New church.   'It is in the Gothic style of architecture, and dates from 1862. The chief material used in construction is black stone with freestone corners.'(Basset) Tenders invited for erecting new church, Aug 1861.
Refs: Protestant Watchman & Lurgan Gazette, 10 Aug 1861;  George Henry Bassett, The Book of County Armagh (1888), 351;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 429;  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006),  121(illus.).

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, HILL STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (2ND)
Date: 1890
Nature: Addition of copper spire to tower. Contractor: Thomas Collen & Sons, Armagh.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 292.