Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE

Name: MILLAR, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE
Date: 1836
Nature: JM exhibits 'Geometrical drawing of part of an architectural facade about to be erected on the Castle grounds opposite the Agricultural Bank, Belfast'.
Refs: Belfast Association of Artists, 1836, no. 104

Name: MACDOWELL, PATRICK *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE
Date: 1865
Nature: Memorial group in Chapel of the Resurrection in memory of Earl of Belfast. Moved to City Hall, 1979.
Refs: DB 7, ? ? 1865, 82; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 61; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 47;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 74-75, Fig.95.

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE
Date: 1868-70
Nature: New Scottish Baronial house on slope of Cave Hill by John Lanyon, for Marquess of Donegall. Faced with Cookstown stone with white Scottish stone dressings. Note in B of I files says castle was completed 1870; also lodge.
Refs: DB 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9; 16, 15 Jan 1874, 17; Architect 10, 25 Oct 1873, 214(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 26,46, pls. 55,62; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 36-37, (no. 72, illus.); J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 4 (no. 41, illus.)

Name: LANYON, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE
Date: 1868-70
Nature: For Marquess of Donegall. Castle completed 1870; also lodge.
Refs: B of I; Architect 10, 25 Oct 1873, 214(illus.); IB 16, 15 Jan 1874, 17; B 75, 19 Nov 1898, 452(illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 36-37, (no. 72, illus.); J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 4 (no. 41, illus.)

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE
Date: 1922a
Nature: HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Belfast Castle.
Refs: IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809