Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING
Name: | SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | Competition entrant, with T.J. Byrne. |
Refs: | Perspective view in IAA, Acc. 87/98.1; see D.J. Griffin and S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 69(illus.); IB 43, 1 Jan 1901, 591 |
Name: | FENNELL, WILLIAM JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | Design exh. RHA 1905, no. 337; IB 47, 6 May 1905, 310 |
Name: | BYRNE, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | Competition entrant, with W.A. Scott. |
Refs: | Perspective view in IAA, Acc. 87/98.1; see D.J. Griffin and S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 69(illus.) |
Name: | SAVAGE, RUPERT # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | Winner of first prize in abortive competition (Assessor: Thomas Drew). |
Refs: | Design exh. RA, 1901, no. 1572; repr. in Building NewsBuilding News78, 14 Jan 1900, 840; 80, 3 May 1901, 595(illus. in supplement). |
Name: | LAIDLAW, WILLIAM CARRUTHERS # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | WCL. awarded 3rd prize in competition. |
Refs: | B 79, ? ? 1900, 447; Building News 80, 5 Apr 1901, 471(illus.) |
Name: | HANSTOCK, WALTER # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1900 |
Nature: | Winner of second prize in abortive competition (Assessor: Thomas Drew). |
Refs: | B 79, ? ? 1900, 447; Building News78, 14 Jan 1900, 840 (design. repr. in supplement) |
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1899-1905 |
Nature: | New Assembly bulding on site of old Fisherwick Presbyterian Church. Late Perp. style with square tower with corwn spire like St Giles's Cathdral, Edinburgh. Y & M appointed architects for same, after competition had been held. Decision of Thomas Drew, the assessor, was overridden and Y & M appointed instead. Tenders invited, Oct 1901. Opened 5 Jun 1905 by Duke of Argyll. Contractor: Robert Corry. Cost: £70,000. Design claimed by Robert Magill Young in Who's Who in Architecture (1923). Architectural sculputre by Purdy & Millard and J. Edgar Winter. |
Refs: |
PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/39-40; IB 42, 1 Nov,1 Dec 1900, 533,555,557,571; 43, 20 Jun,7 Nov,5 Dec 1901, 767,928,967; 44, 2,30 Jan,8 May,5 Jun,20 Nov 1902, 992,1021,1238,1270,1272(illus.),1488; 47, 17 Jun 1905, 406,414(illus.); Jubilee No. (1909), 41; B 79, ? ? 1900, 447; 80. 15 Jun 1901, 590; 82, 26 Apr 1902, 427; 88, 10 Jun 1905, 635; 112, 5 Jan 1917, 11(illus.); 74, 19 Nov 1932, 1042; Building News 79, 14 Dec 1900, 840,843; 87, 8 Jul 1904, 41; 89, 11 Aug 1905, 177(illus.); Irish Times, 23 Oct 1901,6 Jun 1905; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 69-70; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),146-147,171(illus.); Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), xiii(illus.),xiv(illus.),5(illus.),19(illus.),24(illus.),165-183(illus.),239(illus.),285. |
Name: | CORRY, ROBERT * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1900-1905 |
Nature: | Built by RC to designs by Young & Mackenzie. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 66, no. 150(illus.) |
Name: | WARD & PARTNERS * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1905 |
Nature: | D.G. Barkley memorial window. |
Refs: |
Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 25(illus.). |
Name: | PURDY & MILLARD * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1905a |
Nature: | Carving on upper floors by Purdy & Millard (excluding carving around entrances and on ground storey and portrait of John Knox indoors which is by J. Edgar Winter). |
Refs: | IB 47, ? ? 1905, 194; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 70; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 66 (no.150); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),146,171(illus.) |
Name: | WINTER, JOSEPH (OR JAMES) EDGAR * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1905a |
Nature: | External carving around entrances and on ground storey and portrait of John Knox indoors). Other carving by Purdy & Millard. |
Refs: | C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 70; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 66 (no.150); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),146,171(illus.) |
Name: | DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1905ca |
Nature: | Ornamental rooflight in main assembly hall, and 6-light Barkly memorial window in minor hall. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland (Belfast, 1992), 118(illus.) |
Name: | STEVENSON, SAMUEL, & SONS |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FISHERWICK PLACE, PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY BUILDING |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | Alts. |
Refs: | IB 79, 3 Apr 1937, 313 |