Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD (ARDOYNE), HOLY CROSS CHURCH (RC) & MONASTERY

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD (ARDOYNE), HOLY CROSS CHURCH (RC) & MONASTERY
Date: 1900
Nature: New Romanesque church 'based on the style of the Lombardic churches of Northern Italy'. First sod turned, Mar 1900. FS laid 17 Jun 1900. Builder: James Henry & Sons, Crumlin Rd, Belfast. Dedicated 18 May (Whit Sunday) 1902.
Refs: Perspective view by 'A.C.F.' in Butler Collection, IAA (repr. in Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive, no. 35); views of interior & exterior exh. RHA 1901, nos. 290,311; IB 42, 15 Jan,15 Feb,1 Mar,15 Mar,1 Jul,1 Dec 1900, 242,286,293,308,402,556,560(illus.); 43, 16 Jan 1901, 599; 44, 22 May 1902, 1264;  Irish Times, 19 May 1900;  B 78, 30 Jun 1900, 650; 82, 22 Mar,24 May 1902, 296,524; Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, 79-98, Fig. 6:6-15,8:6a,b.