Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, STRANMILLIS COLLEGE

Name: SMITH, ROLAND INGLEBY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, STRANMILLIS COLLEGE
Date: 1926-1930
Nature: New teacher training college, opened 1930. Tenders invited for erection of lecture block, May 1926. ornish purple brick with white jointing on Portland stone base. Mansard roof. Contractor: H. & J. Martin.
Refs: Irish Times, 6 May 1926 ('Tenders wanted');  IB 72, 10 May 1930, 410(illus.),412; 74, 19 Nov 1932, 1044;   Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 81 (no. 187, illus.)

Name: RIPPINGHAM, THOMAS FRANCIS O.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, STRANMILLIS COLLEGE
Date: 1928-1930
Nature: 'The architect was...Ingleby Smith, although the design may have been partly or even wholly the work of...T.F.O. Rippingham'. Neo-Goergian. Cornish brick with Portland stone dressings. Mansard roof.
Refs: Hugh Dixon, An Introduction to Ulster Architecture (UAHS, 1975), 79(illus.); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 164(illus.),165

Name: RIPPINGHAM, THOMAS FRANCIS O.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, STRANMILLIS COLLEGE
Date: 1933ca;1949ca
Nature: Main entrance and lodge, 1933c; side entrance and lodge, 1949c. Probably by TFOR.
Refs: J.A.K. Dean, The Gate lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 2(illus.)9