Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, COMBER, THOMAS ANDREWS JUNIOR MEMORIAL HALL

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, THOMAS ANDREWS JUNIOR MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1913-14
Nature: New hall built as memorial to Thomas Andrews, jr, chief designer of Titanic at Harland & Wolff 's shipyard. Tender of Courtney & Co., Belfast, accepted. Completed, 1914, and opened by Mrs Andrews, 1915.  Carvings on front elevation by Rosamond Praeger.
Refs: Architect's copy of estimate for building same, Jun 1913, in PRONI, D2194/2/2 (see PRONI e-catalogue); IB 55, 5 Jul,11 Oct 1913, 444,656;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 25(illus.),131(illus.),349.

Name: PRAEGER, ROSAMOND *
Building: CO. DOWN, COMBER, THOMAS ANDREWS JUNIOR MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1914a
Nature: Carvings on front elevation.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 131(illus.).