Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.