St Mary’s Church, Chapel Lane
St. Mary’s Church was opened in 1784. At the time, it was the only Roman Catholic church in the then town of Belfast and the census of 1782 recorded only 365 Catholics living in Belfast city. It was funded by…
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St Malachy’s Catholic Church, Alfred St
St Malachy’s Church was constructed in 1840 and designed by Thomas Jackson in the Tudor Revival style. It is reminiscent of Queen’s College in having Tutor arches, being of brick construction and Elizabethan symmetry. It also has touches of Gothic…
St George’s Market
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…
Belfast Harp Festival
On 14 July 1792, the famous Belfast Harp festival was held in the Assembly Rooms. Ten harpists, most of them blind, took part in this celebration of the fall of the Bastille prison in Paris that had taken place three…
St George’s Market
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…