Selected: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Name: | SMYTH, HENRY |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1865-1869;1880-83 |
Nature: | New district lunatic asylum for 150 males and 150 females. Contractor: F. & P. McGaughey, Omagh. Estimated cost: £43,174. Actual cost: £60,000, of which 'the Co. Antrim is to pay back £23,295, being the amount of their interest in the asylum'. Opened 1869. Adds. providing accommodation for a further 120 males, 1880-1883 |
Refs: | Drawings for additions, 1883, in NA, OPW drawings collection; B 20, 4 Oct 1862, 724; 22, 13 Aug,17 Sep 1864, 605,690; 23, ? ? 1865, 197; 24, 24 Feb 1866, 139-140; DB 6, 15 Jul 1864, 144; 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 12, 15 Aug 1870, 191; 25, 15 Mar 1883, 93(illus.),98; 45th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1896), 14; |
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1865-69 |
Nature: | Francis McGaughey, Omagh, declared contractor for sum of £43,174. 'Mr Wilkinson is the architect'.(But architect named as Henry Smyth elsewhere.) GW did however act as valuator for determining amount to be paid to Co. Down by Co. Antrim as result of Co. Down building separate asylum instead of sharing joint premises in Belfast as previously. |
Refs: | B 23, 11 Mar 1865, 170; 12, 15 Aug 1870, 191 |
Name: | COWAN, PETER CHALMERS |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Additions & alterations to be undertaken (extension of female hospital and new block for acute cases) |
Refs: | 43rd Rport on…Lunatic Asylums (1894), 14; Architect 52, 1 Mar 1895, suppl. p.12; IB 38, 15 May, 15 Jun 1896, 106,133 |
Name: | WATT (GRAEME) & TULLOCH |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1902-1904 |
Nature: | Adds. & alts. including new service building, Alts & adds.incl. additional male & female blocks, dining hall, farm buildings. |
Refs: | IB 44, 18 Dec 1902, 1526; 45, 1,15 Jan,26 Mar,7 May,4 Jun 1903, 1542,1556,1658,1742,1750,1814; 46, 27 Feb 1904, 122 |
Name: | HERON, JAMES [1] |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1902;1907;1909 |
Nature: | Iron isolation hospital, 1902; sewage purification & disposal, 1907; new waterworks scheme (by 'R. Heron, CE'), 1909. |
Refs: | IB 43, 10 Apr 1902, 1108; 49, 21 Sep 1907, 670; 51, 6 Mar 1909, 154; IB 58, 5 Aug 1916, 373(illus. of water tower in advertisement); 52nd Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1903), 550 |