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 |