Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1869-71
Nature: New Gothic church, erected under auspices of Church Extension Society, designed by WHL. FS laid 11 Sep 1869. Consecrated 2 Mar 1871, when spire not completed.   Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. (Enlarged, 1881; damaged by bombs, Apr 1941. Rebuilt to designs of Young & Mackenzie, 1954. Tower survives.)
Refs: Unsigned, undated design(s) and ssite plan, signed by William Hunter and dated 1868, in RCB Library, portfolio 6; DB 8, 15 May 1866, 133; Architect 2, 18 Sep 1869, 147;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 13, no, 142, 20 Mar 1871, 61; B 75, 19 Nov 1898, illus. in supplement; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 38 (no. 75, illus.); Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 220.  

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1869-71
Nature: See works of W.H. Lynn.
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Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: Extended at W end by 20 ft. New N porch. Church reopened, 20 Nov 1881 on completion of enlargement 'together with the enlargement of the works that had been left unfiNished from the building of the church'. Chancel painted by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, London. Church grounds railed.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 92, 1 Oct 1881, 681; no. 100, 26 Nov 1881, 832.

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: Painting of chancel.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 100, 26 Nov 1881, 832.

Name: HOGARTH STUDIOS *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1891
Nature: Stained-glass window in memory of Sir John Preston.
Refs: Architect46, 7 Aug 1891, suppl p.7.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANTRIM ROAD, ST JAMES'S CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1954
Nature: Rebuilding and refurbishing after church had been substantially damaged in 1941 air raid.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 225,293-4.