Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/08/024

Address :
Non-Subscribing Church 63 Church Street Antrim BT41 4BE

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Recreational Club

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
96-13 SE

IG Ref:
J1512 8656

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Owner Category

Miscellaneous

Exterior Description And Setting

A rectangular building with roughcast walls, smooth rendered dressings and slated roof. Main entrance faces north but main regular 4-bay façade faces south. Arched openings to tall windows on long elevations but all windows blocked up. Moulded hoods to tall windows, with foliated stops. SETTING: The buiding stands within its own grounds, set back slightly from the main street of the town, on a corner site.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A rebuilding in 1881 of an earlier meeting house erected for Scottish settlers in c 1699-1700. The earlier building was described as being whitewashed and having had a double row of windows to each side. It stands in the area of an ancient monument, SMR no. ANT 173. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50 (shows a central return on rear). 2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50 (shows a central return on rear). 3. OS Map 1962, Co Antrim 50 (shows a central return on rear now removed). 4. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 29: Parishes of County Antrim XI, 1832-3, 1835-9 (Belfast, 1995), pp 8, 45. 5. Inscription plaque on building. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), pp 6, 11.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a late 19th century rebuilding of a much earlier meeting house and is not of special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 November 2004