Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CARLISLE CIRCUS, STATUE OF REV. HUGH HANNA

Name: BIRCH, CHARLES BELL *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CARLISLE CIRCUS, STATUE OF REV. HUGH HANNA
Date: 1894
Nature: 9-ft-high bronze statue of Rev. Hugh Hanna on base designed by Young & Mackenzie.  Unveiled 1894. (Destroyed by bomb, 1970.).  Last work of CBB.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 57-58;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 241(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 359-60(illus.).


Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CARLISLE CIRCUS, STATUE OF REV. HUGH HANNA
Date: 1894
Nature: Base of statue by Charles Bell Birch designed by Y & M. Cost of whole monument: £400. (Destroyed by bomb, 1970.)
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 359-60(illus.).