Elmwood Hall is a modern day concert hall owned by Queen’s University Belfast. It was built originally as the Elmwood Presbyterian Church and erected in 1862. The building has a mixture of styles, principally Italianate with a spire on top of a campanile. It also includes a ‘Renaissance arcade with chunky Venetian columns, mediaeval machicolations, a classical cornice and balustrade, a Moorish well canopy and a French needle spire are all absorbed into a coherent but very elaborate Irish version of a Lombard Gothic church’.[1] School rooms were added to the church in 1866.
Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast? We pass this site on my Queen’s Quarter Tour!
[1] https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/elmwood-hall-church-belfast-sept-10.53733/ Accessed 12.6.22.