churches historical belfast

Although dating from 1857, the interior of this Venetian style harbourside church was refurbished on a maritime theme and is continued as a gleaming tribute to the city's seafaring traditions by a friendly congregation.

Don't miss the stained glass, the bell from HMS Hood and the lifeboat shape collection boxes. Next door is the Belfast Harbour Commissioners Office, an imposing Victorian block open to the public for functions and by arrangement only....

At upper Ballinderry is a barn church with bull's eye glass in the windows, built in 1666 for Jeremy Taylor, the famous Bishop of Down and Connor, a descendant of Dr Rowland Taylor and one of the great prose writers of the seventeenth century.

Theological tussles with local Presbyterians apparently made his bishopric 'a place of torment'. He died, aged fifty four, the year before the Ballinderry church was consecrated and is buried in Dromore cathedral....

The first bleach green in Ulster was established before 1626 at Lambeg a mile downstream, a hamlet with a pretty suspension bridge and church. The hamlet have its name to the big drums which came to Ireland from Holland with the army of William the 3rd. 'Lambegs' are seen and heard in Orange Lodge parades....