Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MEETING HOUSE STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MEETING HOUSE STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1870
Nature: Proposed (competition?) design.
Refs: Alternate plans and elevations, 1870, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 82/49.20

Name: FERGUSON, JOHN GUY
Building: CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MEETING HOUSE STREET, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1871-72
Nature: New E English church for 750 worshippers. FS laid Sep 1871 by Miss Houston, Lifford. Opened Oct 1872. Contr: McClelland & Co, Derry. (Destroyed by fire, Christmas Day 1938 and replaced by new church in Manse grounds on Derry Road.)
Refs: IB 13, 15 Sep 1871, 241; Architect 6, 23 ?Sep 1871, 161; 8, 19 Oct 1872, 225 Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 493; David Killen, ed., Through all the days: a Presbyterian Heritage, Strabane, 1659-1994 [1994], unpaginated (includes photograph of church)