Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
Name: | LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE |
Date: | 1852 |
Nature: | JJL exhibits competition design at RHA. |
Refs: | RHA 1852, no. 394 |
Name: | LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE |
Date: | 1852-53 |
Nature: | New building in Palladian style. Engaged Roman Doric columns. Scrabo freestone. Foundations being prepared April 1852; opened 1855. Expected cost about £6,000. Builder: John Corry. (Used as Parliament House for 3 years from 1921.) |
Refs: | B 10, 3 Jan,21 Feb,17 Apr,7 Aug 1852, 13,123,245,495,503(illus.); IB 63, 13 Aug 1921, 549; APSD I, B, 57; A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 23(illus.),2422-24(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 34, Pl. 35; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 17 (no. 30, illus.) |
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE |
Date: | 1868-69 |
Nature: | New south wing containing student accommodation and dining hall erected as a memorial to late Professor Gibson (whose bust is over main entrance).. About to be started, Feb 1868. Inaugurated early 1869. Builder: J. & J. Guiler. Estimated cost £2,500. |
Refs: | IB 10, 15 Feb 1868, 40; B 27, 27 Feb 1869, 171; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 12(illus.),112(illus.), 335. |
Name: | LANYON, JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE |
Date: | 1878 |
Nature: | North wing, containing chapel, professors' residences, students' chambers, faculty room and president's residence. Tenders invited Sep 1878. FS laid Oct? 1878, |
Refs: | Belfast News Letter, 27 Sep 1878, 3; IB 20, 1 Nov 1878, 310; A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 23(illus.),24; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 17 (no. 30) |