Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Name: | COOPER, - |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, ASSEMBLY ROOMS |
Date: | 1775ca |
Nature: | Building completed under C's supervision. |
Refs: | C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 4, (but cf. his Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 44, where he gives the date as 1776). |
Name: | TAYLOR, ROBERT (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, ASSEMBLY ROOMS |
Date: | 1775ca |
Nature: | Addition of assembly rooms above market house. Paid for by 5th Earl of Donegall. Work supervised by - Cooper. Carver: Samuel Kirke. (Exterior remodelled by Charles Lanyon, 1845, interior by W.H. Lynn, 1895.; became head office of Belfast Bank) |
Refs: | Aquatint of interior by Thomas Malton, from set of 32 plates of Taylor's works commissioned by his son from Thomas Malton and distributed privately in 1792 (repr. Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 14 (no. 24); engraved view of exterior (Ulster Museum) repr. Larmour, loc. cit.); .Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 965; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 4,30, pl.3. |