Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: TILLEY, -
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1897
Nature: Jackson and Tilley winners of competition. Assessor: Sidney Mitchell, Edinburgh.
Refs: 46th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1897), 18.

Name: JACKSON, ANTHONY THOMAS
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1897
Nature: Jackson and Tilley winners of competition. Assessor: Sidney Mitchell, Edinburgh.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/25 (porter's lodge only); IAA, PKS B17/27; B 72, 16 Jan,20 Mar 1897, 59,272; 46th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1897), 18

Name: LANYON, JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1897
Nature: Placed 3rd in competition. Assessor: Sidney Mitchell, Edinburgh.
Refs: B 72, 16 Jan,20 Mar 1897, 59,272

Name: PHILLIPS, J.J., & SON
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1897
Nature: Placed 2nd in competition. Assessor: Sidney Mitchell, Edinburgh.
Refs: B 72, 16 Jan,20 Mar 1897, 59,272

Name: WATT (GRAEME) & TULLOCH
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1902-04
Nature: 2 new villas on Purdysburn estate for Asylum committee, 1902.
Refs: IB 44, 10 Apr,6,20 Nov, 1902, 1106,1472,1492; 51st Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1902), 529

Name: HINE, GEORGE THOMAS #
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1907-08;1909
Nature: New villa colony with 2 churches, recreation hall & mortuary (H. & J. Martin contractors for latter 3), 1907-1908. Further extension costing £81,000, 1909. Supervising architects: Graeme Watt & Tulloch.
Refs: Drawing in IAA, Workhouse Drawings Collection, 85/138.86; IB 50, 27 Jun 1908, 405; 51, 23 Jan 1909, 37; 58th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1909), 33

Name: WATT (GRAEME) & TULLOCH
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1907-08;1909
Nature: GW & T supervising architects for new villa colony with 2 churches, recreation hall & mortuary (H. & J. Martin contractors for latter 3), designed by George Thomas Hine, of London, 1907-1908. Further extension costing £81,000, 1909.
Refs: IB 49, 20 Apr,4,29 May 1907, 288,324,342; 50, 18 Apr,27 Jun,31 Oct,28 Nov,12 Dec 1908, 245,405,671,739,773; 51, 23 Jan,1,1,29 May,26 Jun,10 Jul 1909, 37,278,342,406,437; 58th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1909), 33

Name: WATT, TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1910-11
Nature: 2 additional villas(Contractor: Robert Corry, £9790), 1911. Drainage work (Contractor: Grainger Bros., Holywood), 1911.
Refs: IB 52, 19 Feb 1910, 118; 53, 18 Feb,16 Sep 1911, 114,122,637; IA & C 1, 28 Jan,4 Feb 1911, 12,28;

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1915
Nature: Proposed scheme
Refs: Design, dated 1915, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: FITZSIMONS, NICHOLAS
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1917ca
Nature: Extension(?) to Belfast villa colony asylum.
Refs: B 112, 12 Jan 1917, ?(illus.); Who's Who in Architecture 1923, 91

Name: TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1924-1925;1933-1936;1938-39
Nature: Additional buildings, including medical superintendent's house, 1924-1925. Extension consisting of 6 buildings housing 420 persons at estimated cost of £112,000, 1933-36. Contractor: Stewart & Partners. Further? extension (designed by Fitzsimons), 1938-39.
Refs: IB 66, 23 Aug 1924, 741; 75, 22 Apr,29 Jul,4 Nov 1933, 321,632,936; 76, 110 Feb,2 Jun 1934, 98,453; 77, 19 Oct 1935, 946; 78, 30 May 1936, 455(illus.); 80, 8 Jan 1938, 15;81, 24 Jun 1939, 540; B 112, 12 Jan 1917, ?; 129, 7 Aug 1925, 22

Name: BROWN, FRANCIS D.
Building: CO. DOWN, PURDYSBURN, LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: ?
Nature: Power plant and machinery in laundry, for Belfast Corporation.
Refs: IB 55, 11 Oct 1913, 656