The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1919 built to the designs of a well-regarded Belfast architect in a Victorian Gothic style.
Only the gaunt steel supports of this railway viaduct now stand –
One of two roundhouses to the same design on the Great Northern Railway system –
Classically detailed building with capitals and dentil frieze from the 1920s finished in Faience.
When the First World War ended in 1918 the question arose of a suitable war memorial to Irish Presbyterians who had made the supreme sacrifice –
The community was constructed between 1917 and 1926 with the Chapel of St Gabriel blessed on May 23 1926.
According to family lore, a member of the local Madden family who were major shareholders in the Great Northern Railway visited Milan.
Gabled, half-timbered-effect block of shops &
St Anne’s Cathedral is built on the site of St Anne’s Church,
An obelisk of hammered granite with dressed angles standing on a base reached by three steps.
