Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BOTANIC AVENUE, PRESBYTERIAN MEMORIAL SECESSION CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BOTANIC AVENUE, PRESBYTERIAN MEMORIAL SECESSION CHURCH
Date: 1876-80
Nature: New Gothic church to accommodate 450. Schoolroom, sexton's apartments &c. on ground floor, church above. Tenders invited, 21 Oct 1876.  In course of erection, Dec 1877.  Finished Jan 1880. Contractor: Martin Curry. (Purchased by Kinghan Mission for Deaf & Dumb, 17899.)
Refs: IB 19, 1 Dec 1877, 351(illus.),353; PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/2; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 35;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 266(illus.).