Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD (& DERRYVOLGIE AVE), WINDSOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: CORRY, ROBERT *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD (& DERRYVOLGIE AVE), WINDSOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1885-1887
Nature: Built by RC to designs by Young & Mackenzie.
Refs: IB 28, 15 Apr 1886, 117; IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 16.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD (& DERRYVOLGIE AVE), WINDSOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1885-87;1889;1927
Nature: New church. Building fund opened 1874 or earlier. White Scrabo sandstone with red Dumfries sandstone dressings. Tower and spire above 150 ft high. Expected cost: £6,000.Builder: Robert Corry. Lecture hall and school house 'to be erected' at cost of £906, Jul 1889. Builder: W. McCammond. Link between school & church, 1927.
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1; IB 28, 15 Apr 1886, 117(illus.); 31, 15 Jul 1889, 191; 69, 25 Jun 1927, 473; Architect 33, 12 Mar 1886, 157; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 43 (sub no. 89); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 70(illus.), 78-9;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 159-160(illus.),274(illus.).