Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, QUEEN'S BRIDGE

Name: FRASER, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, QUEEN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1837-1843
Nature: Designed by JF with Charles Lanyon (initially with Thomas Jackson Woodhouse).
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal I (1837-38), 173;  Brett, 29; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 52 (no. 117, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 270

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, QUEEN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1840-43
Nature: New bridge of 5 arches replacing old 21-arch bridge over River Lagan. By CL with John Frazer. Foundations laid 1841, when estimated cost was £27,000. Contractor: Francis Ritchie.
Refs: 8th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1840), 23; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 149; Brett, 29; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 52 (no. 117, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 270; Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 44

Name: BRETLAND, JOSIAH CORBETT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, QUEEN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1885-1886
Nature: Widening by addition of cantilevered footpaths. Tenders invited, Mar 1885.
Refs: IB 27, 1 Mar 1885, 70; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 52 (no. 117, illus.)