Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church
Belfast, County Antrim
One of Belfast’s most striking buildings, Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church has served as a gateway to North Belfast since 1875.
The Gothic revival St Patrick's was designed by Timonthy Hevey and Mortimer Thomspon and consecrated in 1877. The society painter Sir John Lavery was baptised here and painted the triptych of oil paintings in the church.
The parish also has a medieval Arm Shrine believed to have held the forearm bone of St Patrick. The shrine is held in the Ulster Museum in Belfast and can be seen there. A small relic of bone taken from the burial site of St Patrick in Downpatrick in 1194 AD is kept permanently in the church.
The church also holds a small relic of St Anthony of Padua.