Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, BANGOR CASTLE

Name: WALKER, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, BANGOR CASTLE
Date: 1845
Nature: Set of Jacobethan designs for same, for Robert Ward. Not executed.
Refs: Signed, dated drawings in PRONI, D1529/2/8 (photocopies of ground plan and perspective view in Jones file W9A; Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 35

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, BANGOR CASTLE
Date: 1847
Nature: Elizabethan mansion, for Robert E. Ward. Attributed to Burn by T.L. Donaldson. See also Anthony Salvin.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4TH edn., 2008), 193, citing list of Burn's works by T.L. Donaldson in RIBA Transactions (1870), 125-8; Marcus Patton, Historic Buildings in…Bangor and Groomsport (UAHS, 1984), 10; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of North County Down (UAHS, 2002), 122-3(illus.)

Name: SALVIN, ANTHONY (SENIOR) #
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, BANGOR CASTLE
Date: 1847ca
Nature: Credited in his obituary with design of same. But see also William Burn. (David Walker has suggested that Burn might have started the building and Salvin finished it.) Surviving gate lodges on Abbey St and Castle Park Rd 'probably' by AS
Refs: Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 34(illus.),35