93 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top grade

Town Hall, Bangor CastleGrade A listedBangor War MemorialGrade B+ listedSt Comgall's Parish Church of IrelandGrade B+ listedRoyal Ulster Yacht ClubGrade B+ listedFirst Presbyterian ChurchGrade B+ listed+1See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The Department for Communities lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in Northern Ireland in three main grades: Grade A for buildings of the greatest importance (about 2.4% of listed buildings), Grade B+ for buildings of particular quality or interest (about 7.4%), and Grade B, with B1 and B2, for buildings of special interest (about 90%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the Department for Communities’ Historic Buildings Record whose point lies inside NISRA’s settlement development limit (2015). One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Of the 93 entries, 56 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Department for Communities.

2 historic parks, gardens and demesnes

BangorGrade A · A

Clandeboye (Ballyleidy)A*

Máel Ruba

William McWheeney

Hugh Pollock

John Monteath

Dennis Bingham

Edward Bingham

Winifred Carney

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Winifred Carney1887–1943 · Suffragist, trade unionist, Irish independence activist (1887-1943)

MR

Máel Ruba642–722 · Irish monk and martyr

DB

Dennis Bingham1880–1940 · Polo player (1880-1940)

Edward Bingham1881–1939 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross

Hugh Pollock1852–1937 · British politician (1852–1937)

JM

John Monteath1878–1955 · Irish cricketer and colonial official (1878-1955)

William McWheeney1830–1866 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1830–1866)

Everyone born in Bangor → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Bangor has 93 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top grade, including Town Hall, Bangor Castle. Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 7 people born here before 1900, the best known include Winifred Carney (1887), Máel Ruba (642) and Dennis Bingham (1880). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.