Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD, METHODIST CHURCH

Name: PHILLIPS, J.J., & SON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD, METHODIST CHURCH
Date: 1900
Nature: New. Opened 26 Oct 1900. To accommodate 1,100 people. Cost: £5,000. Contractor: Robert Thompson & Son. (Destroyed in blitz, 1942; rebuilt to design by Young & Mackenzie, 1952, which was demolished in 2011 and replaced by Skainos Centre.)
Refs: B 79, 10 Nov 1900, 424-5; IB 42, 15 Nov 1900, 543;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 225,287.