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Larne and Inver Parish Church Hall

None, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Larne and Inver Parish Church Hall, None, Mid and East Antrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Hall
Date of construction
1920 - 1939
Address
Larne and Inver Parish Church Hall, Curran Road, Larne, Co Antrim
Townland
None
Council
Mid and East Antrim
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.85191, -5.81007
Date of survey
20 December 1997
HB reference
HB06/08/013

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1900 map "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · Edinburgh. Scottish Lake District. Index Map: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Scotland - southern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey church hall in rustic brick with gabled and hipped roof of Westmoreland green slates. The gabled and segmentally arched entrance porch containing a recessed three-light cusped fanlight imports a slight Tudor air to an otherwise plain design. Lead cupola on louvered roof ventilator; cast iron gutters and downpipes with ornamented hoppers; PVC replacement windows, fixed lights with side-hung casements, in rectangular openings; smooth cement render to rear wall.

The building stands on a slightly elevated site facing a main road in the town, approached by a flight of steps, with a grassy lawn between it and the rustic brick boundary wall and railings.

Historical information

Built as the parochial hall for St Cedma’s Church of Ireland church; designed in 1931 by Godfrey Ferguson; foundation stone laid 6 October 1931; opened 24 May 1932; builders, Hugh Girvan and Sons.

References - Secondary

1. J.A. Fair, To This You Belong (Belfast, ND [1979]), pp 73-74.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A nicely composed building. A late and minor work by a well known architect of the time, which retains some original features but has had its original character seriously impaired by wholesale replacement of its windows in an inappropriate style.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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