Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD (BALLYMACARRETT), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
| Name: | CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK |
| Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD (BALLYMACARRETT), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
| Date: | 1891-3;1901-03 |
| Nature: | New church on site of Christ Church. FS laid 26 Oct 1891. 1st secton, built by Dixon & Campbell, consecrated 11 Mar 1893. 2nd section and tower completed by Mssrs. Thornbury, 1903. Cost £14,500; £2,500 still to be paid off in May 1904.(Church almost totally rebuilt after bomb damage in 1941) |
| Refs: |
B 61, 14 Nov 1891, ?; 64, 25 Feb 1893, 155; 85, 17 Oct 1903, 391-2; IB 35, 1 Mar 1893, 61; RHA 1899, no. 307; PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/36; Irish Times, 6 May 1904; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 64 (under no. 144); Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 68,69 (Pls. 94,95); Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 56-57(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 185. |
| Name: | WINTER, JOSEPH (OR JAMES) EDGAR * |
| Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD (BALLYMACARRETT), CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
| Date: | 1904 |
| Nature: | Carving by JEW. |
| Refs: | IB 46, 27 Feb 1904, 106 |