Thomas Duff

Who was Thomas Duff?

Thomas John Duff was an Irish architect from the town of Newry, County Down. Duff was the principal architect of a number of Roman Catholic churches and cathedrals in the northeast of Ireland.

His work included three churches dedicated to St.Patrick: St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, Dundalk; the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick and St. Colman, Newry, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh city. Duff also designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, the city's first National School and believed to be the last remaining Gothic Revival building in Belfast and the museum of the Belfast Natural History Society