Historic Lurgan

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• Step 1: Starting at the car park in Robert Street walk up the hill towards the Main Street.

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  Step 2: Facing you is Queen Street Methodist Church. A simple Victorian Gothic front building dating from 1839.

• Step 3: Once you have seen the church, take right towards the town centre and ‘The Big Church’.

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  Step 4: Formerly called Bengal Place, these 3 storey houses were built by the Cuppage family in c1830. Only the ground floor frontage exists today.

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  Step 5: Lurgan’s first Presbyterian church was built on these grounds in 1714. High St. Methodist church, opened in 1826, was renovated in 1910.

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  Step 6: The Mechanics Institute opened in 1858 costing £1,400. Originally it had a good library and rooms for evening classes.

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