Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CHAPEL LANE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CHAPEL LANE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1783-84 |
Nature: | New church consisting of 3-bay pedimented centre with projecting single-bay wings on both sides. Set back from road. Entrace by two gates on either side of 3-bay sacristan's cottage. Opened 30 May 1784. |
Refs: | Rev. Patrick Rogers, The story of Old St Mary's(1941), 22(illus.)-23 |
Name: | O'NEILL, JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CHAPEL LANE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1868-69 |
Nature: | Improvements in Romanesque style. Addition of 5 bays, porch, 90ft tower and apsidal sanctuary. Building brought forward to within a few feet of street, entailing demolition of sacristan's cottage.. Builder: John Connor & Sons, York St. Dedicated 23 Nov 1868. Cost: £3,000. Altar by Thomas Earp, London. |
Refs: | IB 10, 15 Jul 1868, 182; 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9; J. O'Laverty, History of the Diocese of Down and Connor II (1880), ?; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 55,138-140,fig.5 |
Name: | MCDONNELL, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CHAPEL LANE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1883 |
Nature: | New organ case. |
Refs: | IB 23, 15 Jul 1883, 218(illus.) |
Name: | GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CHAPEL LANE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC) |
Date: | 1936;1939-41;19 |
Nature: | Improvements, 1936. New staircase, apse, confessionals and sacristy, 1940-41. Lourdes grotto and campanile in garden by P.& B. Gregory, 1953-4. |
Refs: | IB 78, 31 Oct 1936, 993; 81, 25 Nov 1939, 967; 82, 3 Feb,31 Aug 1940, 82,545; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 38 (no. 77, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical Gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 58-59 |