Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Glasgow, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 826, and Dictionary of Scottish Architects (www.scottish architects.org). In 1858 James Hamilton won the competition for designing the Ulster Bank in Belfast, completed in 1860 under the supervision of JAMES MOORE JAMES MOORE . In Ireland he also designed the Ulster Bank branches in Trim (1862) and Sligo (1863), and, in collaboration with FRANCIS STIRRAT FRANCIS STIRRAT , shops in the High Street in Belfast (1866), and a new parsonage at Craigavad, Co. Down (1866). Some of the references to him in the Irish Builder in 1862 and 1863 describe him as 'of Glasgow and Belfast', which suggests that he may have opened a Belfast office for a time.

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Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1858-1860
Nature: JH winner of competition (announced, Aug 1857) out of 40 competitors with design for 'an exuberant and ornate Renaissance palazzo' (Larmour). Work supervised by James Moore. Builder: D. & J. Fulton. Carving: Mssrs. Fitzpatrick.
Refs: Unsigned designs for banking hall fittings (not necessarily by JH), Jul 1859, in Ulster Bank archive, Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, ULS 387;  drawing(s) for cash office fittings by [James Hamilton], 98 West , 1858, seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast UB/N1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972);  B 16, 10 Apr,11Sep 1858, 250,615; 17, 4 Jun 1859, 374; 18, ?27 Oct 1860, 688; 19, 20 Apr 1861, 263; DB 1, 1 Jun,1 Oct 1859, 66,134-5; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 25,nos.120,121, illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 20 (no. 35, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 316(illus.),330

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1858-1860
Nature: JH winner of competition (announced, Aug 1857) out of 40 competitors with design for 'an exuberant and ornate Renaissance palazzo' (Larmour). Work supervised by James Moore. Builder: D. & J. Fulton. Carving: Mssrs. Fitzpatrick.
Refs: Unsigned designs for banking hall fittings (not necessarily by JH), Jul 1859, in Ulster Bank archive, Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, ULS 387;  drawing(s) for cash office fittings by [James Hamilton], 98 West , 1858, seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast UB/N1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972);  B 16, 10 Apr,11Sep 1858, 250,615; 17, 4 Jun 1859, 374; 18, ?27 Oct 1860, 688; 19, 20 Apr 1861, 263; DB 1, 1 Jun,1 Oct 1859, 66,134-5; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 25,nos.120,121, illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 20 (no. 35, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 316(illus.),330

Building: CO. MEATH, TRIM, BRIDGE STREET, ULSTER BANK
Date: 1862
Nature: About to be erected. Tenders invited Mar 1862.
Refs: Irish Times, 26 Mar 1862;  Freeman's Journal, 26 Mar 1862;  DB 4, 1 Apr 1862, 85

Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, STEPHEN STREET, ULSTER BANK
Date: 1862-63
Nature: 'a blending of the composite style of architecture'. Contractor: John Finlay, Glasgow, who died during contract.Stone from Orchard and Giffnock, near Glasgow. Cost: £5,000
Refs: DB 5, 1 Feb,1 Aug 1863, 17,133; W.G. Wood-Martin, History of Sligo (1882-1892), II, 179

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST BANK (PROPOSED)
Date: 1864
Nature: One of 3 firms invited to submit plans in limited competition for new bank in Belfast 'of very considerable importance'.
Refs: DB 6, 15 Mar 1864, 44

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FORTWILLIAM PARK
Date: 1865ca
Nature: Gateway at Shore Rd entrance erected for James W. Valentine attr. to Hamilton by Larmour. (Central pier later moved to Musgrave Pk)
Refs: Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 160

Building: CO. DOWN, GLENCRAIG (CRAIGAVAD), PARSONAGE
Date: 1866
Nature: Designed by 'Mssrs. Hamilton & Sirrat'(sic).
Refs: DB 8, 15 May 1866, 133

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, HIGH STREET, SHOPS
Date: 1866
Nature: 'being erected by Mssrs. Hamilton & Stirrat'.
Refs: DB 8, 1 Mar 1866, 66

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WELLINGTON PLACE, WAREHOUSE
Date: 1866
Nature: Conversion of dwelling house into warehouse, by 'Hamilton & Stirratt'.
Refs: DB 8, 15 May 1866, 133

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BEDFORD STREET, NO. 017 (BEDFORD ST WEAVING CO.)
Date: 1869
Nature: Begun Sep 1869. To be faced with Scotch stone. Builder: McCreary & Morgan.
Refs: IB 11, 15 Sep 1869, 213; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 44, pls.40,47,48; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 39 (no. 78, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 25,40(illus.),52(illus.)