Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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)