Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, NORTH STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, NORTH STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1829
Nature: New Classical church opened 8 Feb 1829, replacing T-paln church of 1724.
Refs: Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 174(illus.);
Sheela Speers, Under the Big Lamp(1989), 35(illus.), gives date of openeing as 1827.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, NORTH STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1913
Nature: New organ chanmber at rear and new organ case, new pulpit, and choir seats.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 293

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, NORTH STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1921
Nature: War memorial in form of Portland stone circular drum with Doric pilasters in front of church. Demolished 1955 when War Memorial Hall was built on site. Bronze plaques with names of dead resited.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 360(illus.).