Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FITZROY AVENUE (& UNIVERSITY STREET), PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FITZROY AVENUE (& UNIVERSITY STREET), PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1872-74;1888
Nature: New Gothic revival church (Larmour says designed by R.M. Young) to seat 700, with detached tower and spire at NE angle. FS laid by Mrs Workman Windsor 26 Oct 1872. Cost: £5,000. Builder: William McCammond, Belfast. Carving by Stevens. Estimated cost £5,000. Manse and schools costing £3000 also proposed. Lecture room & sexton's house at rere in course of erection, 1874, at estimated cost of £1,600. Y & M exhibit photographs of carved detail from doorway at Belfast Industrial Exhibition, 1876. New schools, 1885. Thorough renovation, including internal painting and re-chiselling of stonework, 1888. (Spire replaced 1901 after old one blew down in a gale.)
Refs: Architect 8, 2 Nov 1872, 251; IB 14, 1 Nov 1872, 299; 16, 15 Apr 1874, 116; 18, 15 Jun 1876, 172; 27, 15 Oct 1885, 285; 30, 15 Sep 1888, 242; 91, 16 Apr 1949, 346; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 43 (no. 89, illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016),  22(illus.), 155(illus.), 186(illus.),264.

Name: STEVEN, ALEXANDER *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FITZROY AVENUE (& UNIVERSITY STREET), PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1874a
Nature: Carving by 'Mr Stevens'.
Refs: IB 16, 15 Mar 1874, 116