Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, NEWTOWNSTEWART, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. TYRONE, NEWTOWNSTEWART, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1908-10
Nature: New church on site of 1st Presbyterian Church of 1804. Gothic. Hall & tower with short spire. Designed by Robert Young. Tenders invited Sep 1908. Dedicated early 1910 by Rev. Dr McIlveen, ex-Moderator of the General Assembly. Contractor: Hutchinson Keith, Glenravel St, Belfast.. Stone carving: Begley, Omagh
Refs: IB 50, 19 Sep,31 Oct 1908, 579,672; 52, 5 Mar 1910, 150; obit. of Robert Young in B, 9 Feb 1917, 101; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 442;  illus. in Newtownstewart Presbyterian Church http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tyrone/photos/churches/ch-newtownstewart-pres.html (last visited 26 Nov 2008);  also illus. in Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 203;  IB 51, 6 Mar,3 Apr 1909, 146,209;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 152(illus.), 286.