"If you cannot see a congregation or its meeting house, historically we become deaf to its history." Tom Hartley, December 2020.

The talk on ‘Old Belfast Presbyterian Churches in Belfast’ by Tom Hartley originally planned for 2020 as part of the annual Lecture Programme of the Presbyterian Historical Society had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus emergency.  In this YouTube presentation Tom traces the history of 13 lost Presbyterian Meeting Houses in Inner City early 19th Century Belfast.

Much more about the Presbyterian Meeting Houses of Belfast can be found in Tom Hartley's book "Balmoral Cemetery" published by Blackstaff Press in 2019.

The Society is grateful to Mr Tom Hartley for permission to make his talk available on YouTube.

The "Lost 13" included in the presentation:

• Second Rosemary – 1707
• Third Rosemary – 1721
• Donegall Street - 1791
• Linenhall Street Covenanters – 1808
• Alfred Place – 1819
• Fisherwick Place – 1823
• College Street South – 1832
• Alfred Street – 1837
• Linenhall Street – 1839
• York Street Non-subscribing - 1840
• College Square North – 1843
• Great Georges Street – 1843
• Academy Street - 1861