Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architectural partnership, of Belfast, active in 1866-1867, when its address is given as High Street, Belfast.(1) Bell may have been JOSEPH BELL  JOSEPH BELL and Marsh JOSEPH CHANDLER MARSH. JOSEPH CHANDLER MARSH.

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(1) DB 8, 1 Feb 1866, 42; IB 9, 15 Jan,1 Dec 1867, 25,316; the partnership subscribed to Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868).


3 work entries listed in chronological order for BELL & MARSH


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Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALBERT BRIDGE, INDEPENDENT CHAPEL
Date: 1866
Nature: About to be erected for Rev. Sam Rogers.
Refs: DB 8, 15 Jan 1866, 28

Building: CO. ANTRIM, WHITEHOUSE, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Date: 1866-1867
Nature: New Venetian Gothic church. Perforated brick with Scoth stone dressings. To accommodate 640 persons and to cost £2,000. FS laid 1 Jan 1867. Contr: Hill & Johnston. (Destroyed by fire, Aug 2002, and rebuiot, retaining old front.)
Refs: DB 8, 1 Oct 1866, 243; IB 9, 15 Jan,1 Dec 1867, 25,316;  Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: an illustrated history (Booklink, 2006), 142-3(illus.).

Building: CO. ANTRIM, DOAGH, CHURCH OF ST BRIGIDA (CI, KILBRIDE PARISH)
Date: 1866-68
Nature: New parish church about to be erected. Contractor: Thomas Dipon(Dixon?). Consecrated 8 or 9?) Jun 1868..
Refs: Contract drawings, signed or stamped by Welland & Gillespie and by contractor Thomas Dixon, 26 Nov 1866, in RCB Library, portfolio 7 (repr. in on-line catalogue www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org);  DB 8, 1 Feb 1866, 42;  Irish Churchman 1, 20 Jun 1868, 67;  illus. in C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 64;  Clergy of Connor (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1993), 158.