My Great Grandparents Rebecca De Winter and John Lindsay Johnstone were married there in 1855. For a picture, See Jean McCarthy's Genealogy Web Site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jeanmccarthy36/more_c…
See also the URL cited in what I attached to my Ancestry data: "
St.Anne's Belfast as it was in e.g. 1855
up tp end 19C, then developed into a Cathedral
Donegall Street, Belfast, Ireland
The last service in St. Anne's Parish Church was on 27 December 1903. The Cathedral was built round the old church, the organ replaced, etc The feeling that Saint Anne's was still the Parish Church persisted. In the Marriage Registers it took until 1927 before entries in the Married in ? slots changed from being Parish Church to Cathedral. Baptisms are still recorded naming the place of baptism as Parish Church of Belfast. Ref:http://belfastcathedral.org/heritage/articles/04/ One reason for arranging the building of the Cathedral around the Church was to allow as much continuity as was possible for worshippers during the transition. There was a fear that a lengthy closure would lead to some of the congregation leaving to join St George's or any of the 29 churches the Church of Ireland had created in Belfast since 1833. In the summer of 1906 an announcement was made that Mr Carnegie had promised £800 for a new organ on condition that another £800 was raised locally, this on the assumption that a suitable instrument could be had for £1600. That signalled the end for the 125 year old organ. Source of photo: Jean McCarthy's Genealogy Web
Two phots I have used are below:
