Selected: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, CHAINE MEMORIAL TOWER
| Name: | CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK |
| Building: | CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, CHAINE MEMORIAL TOWER |
| Date: | 1886-88 |
| Nature: | Irish round tower, raised by subscription in memory of James Chaine. Intended as a lighthouse but not equipped as one until 1897. |
| Refs: | RHA 1889, no. 408; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 60,61,128 (Pls. 88,89); for more about this tower see Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water (1993), 181-2; Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 73(illus),74 |