Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL PASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (CI)

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL PASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (CI)
Date: 1898-1900
Nature: New church on site of Ulster Magdalene Asylum and Episcopal Chapel (damaged by fire in Dec 1898). Scrabo stone. Builder: James Kidd. FS laid Oct 1899.
Refs: IB 41, 15 Oct 1899, 156; 42, 1 Feb 1900, 256; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 69-70 (Pls. 96,97); Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 75

Name: HOUSTON, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL PASS, CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (CI)
Date: 1928
Nature: Emergency stairs from balcony.
Refs: IB 70, 7 Jan 1928, 30