Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BOTANIC GARDEN

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BOTANIC GARDEN
Date: 1839-1840
Nature: Original design for Palm House by CL.
Refs: A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 31-33(illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 9 (no. 16, illus.)

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BOTANIC GARDEN
Date: 1839-1840
Nature: Architect: Charles Lanyon. Turner & Walker contractors for first stage (i.e. two wings), 1839-40. FS laid 22 Jun 1839. Turner's palm house at Kew appears to have influenced design of central dome, built by Young of Edinburghin or after 1852.
Refs: Belfast News Letter, 22 May 1840, 1-2; Eileen McCracken, The Palm House and Botanic Garden, Belfast (UAHS, 1971), 36-42(illus.); E.J. Diestelkamp, 'Richard Turner (c.1798-1881)and his glasshouses', Glasra 5 (1981), 52

Name: BATT, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BOTANIC GARDEN
Date: 1876-1879
Nature: Stranmillis Rd entrance lodge. Venetian Gothic. Carving by Alexander Steven. First design exh. Belfast Industrial Exhibition 1876. Redesigned 1878. Builder: Dixon & Co. (Demolished 1965.)
Refs: IB 18, 15 May,15 Jun 1876, 139(illus.),145,172; 21, 1 Apr 1879, 100, 103(illus.); Eileen McCracken, The Palm House and the Botanic Garden, Belfast (UAHS, 1971), 48; A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 3233(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 55.

Name: STEVEN, ALEXANDER *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BOTANIC GARDEN
Date: 1879a
Nature: AS carved botanical motifs on William Batt's gate lodge.
Refs: IB 21, 1 Apr 1879, 100; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 55.