Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)

Name: LUNDY, PETER *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1840-44
Nature: PL builder of interior, 1842-44.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett architects files, citing James O’Laverty, An historical account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern (1878), II, ?

Name: JACKSON, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1840-44
Nature: Tudor Revival. TJ winner of competition. Builder of shell: Ross & Campbell, 1841-2; builder of interior: Peter Lundy, 1842-44)
Refs: Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 316, Pls.114-15; Hugh Dixon, 'Honouring Thomas Jackson', Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Proceedings and Reports 2nd series, vol. 9 (1970/71-1976/77), 28; Brett, Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 27-28, pls. 18,19; James O’Laverty, An historical account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern (1878), II, ?; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 10 (no. 17); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 7-8,27(illus.)

Name: PICCIONI, FELICE *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1860s
Nature: Murals, including 'The Carrying of the Cross'.
Refs: Clare A.P. Willsdon, Mural painting in Britain, 1840-1940 (2000), 396.

Name: GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1926
Nature: Larmour thinks that renovation of 1926 (mosaic sanctuary floor, perpendicular tracery screen on E. wall &c) 'looks like the work of Padraic Gregory'. New altar, rails, pulpit and sanctuary, fifts of Mr & Mrs Hugh Donaghy, ded. 3 Oct 1926.
Refs: Catholic Directory (1927), 617; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 10 (no. 17); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical Gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 9

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1926
Nature: Mosaics on sanctuary floor and walls of 2 chapels.
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 10.


Name: GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALFRED STREET, ST MALACHY'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1932
Nature: Lourdes shrine in porch.
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 10 (no. 17); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical Gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 9