Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1827/28
Nature: Large stone building, 63ft x 47ft 6in. cost £2,200. Interior handsomely fitted up with large gallery in front of which is a good clock; 'handsome lustre suspended from the centre of the ceiling'. Seats 1000. Bassett says church was opened in 1827.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: Parishes of Co. Armagh, 1835-9, 114-5; George Henry Bassett, The Book of County Armagh (1888), 349

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1878-79
Nature: Alts. to school and new lecture hall at rere of church
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1ST)
Date: 1932
Nature: Reopened after repairs.
Refs: IB 74, 7 May 1932, 438