Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL

Name: HENMAN & COOPER #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1900-1903
Nature: New hospital for 300 patients. Tenders sought Aug 1900. Foundations laid 1901. Officially opened 27 Jul 1903 by Edward VII & Queen Alexandra;  William Henman among those presented to King. Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. Clerk of Works: G.S. Flower. Plenum Ventilation system subject of libel dispute with George Henry Bibby.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/35;  IB 41, 15 Oct,1 Dec 1899, 156,199; 42, 15 Jan,1 Feb,15 Aug 1900, 247,261(illus.),451; 43, 8,23 May,7 Nov 1901, 723,737(illus.)741,928; 45, 23 Apr,30 Jul,13 Aug 1903, 1726, ?, ?;  Building News 80, 31 May 1901, 729(plan & illus.); 85, 31 Jul 1903, 136; 86, 17 Jun 1904, 867; 87, 1,8,15 Jul 1904, 4-5,42-43,92;  Irish Times, 20,27,28 Jul 1903;  B 85, 1,8 Aug 1903, 141(illus.),166; design exh. RA 1901, no. 1595; William Henman, 'Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: its initiation, design & equipment', RIBAJ 11 (1903-4), 89; William Henman, 'Notes on the Plenum system of Ventilation', RIBAJ 11, (1903-4), 427,487; letters from Henman and George Henry Bibby re libel dispute over Bibby's criticism of Plenum ventilation system in British Architectural Library manuscripts collection, RIBA/LC/39/2/22, 40/2/19, 41/3 and RIBA/LC (Card Index); Brett, 71; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 67 (no. 151, illus.); Richard Clarke, The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: a history, 1797-1997 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1997), 67-83(illus.)

Name: DOUGLAS, WILLIAM JOSEPH *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1903ca
Nature: Stained glass and leaded lights designed by WJD.
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 67 (no.151)

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1904
Nature: Superintendent's house ( demolished).
Refs: Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 104-5,131 (Pls. 172,173).

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1913-1915;1923-26;1929-1940;1953
Nature: King Edward Memorial Wing. Contract awarded to McLaughlin & Harvey, 1913. Opened by Lord Lieutenant (Lord Wimborne), 19 May 1915.May 1915. Gate lodge, 1923. Extensions, including North (Musgrave) Wing, mortuary, &c. 1923-1926, opened 20 Oct 1926.  (McLaughlin & Harvey). Maternity hospital, 1929-1932 (McLaughlin & harvey. Cost: £125,000). Pathology School, 1931-33 (F.B. McKee & Co.) Nurses' home, 1934. Private patients' pavilion (Musgrave Pavilion), 1934-38. Add. to maternity hospital and isolation block, 1937. Gateway, 1940. Quin House neurology and neurosurgery dept., 1953 (demolished).
Refs: IB 55, 16 Aug,8 Nov 1913, 533,716; 57, 3 Jul 1915, 308; 65, 16 Jun,11 Aug 1923, 464,620; 66, 28 Jun 1924, 577; 67, 3 Oct 1925, 809; 68, 30 Oct 1926(illus.); 72, 4 Jan 1930, 19; 73, 14 Mar,25 Apr,20 Jun 1931, 230,360a,558; 74, 27 Feb,26 Mar,18 Jun,19 Nov 1932, 194,303,568,1050; 75, 29 Jul 1933, 636(illus.); 76, 16 Jun,8 Sep,6 Oct 1934, 517,770,865; 77, 9 Mar 1935, 206; 78, 8 Aug,31 Oct 1936, 710,990; 79, 4 Sep,2,30 Oct 1937, 797,882,966; 80, 19 Feb.15 Oct 1938, 130,150,874; 81, 5 Aug 1939, 678; 82, 2 Mar,25 May 1940, 146,350; Building News 105, 10 Oct 1913, 529; Building News 105, 22 Aug 1913, 275;  Irish Times, 20 May 1915;  Architect & Building News 121, 18 Jan 1929, 127; 126, 19 Jun 1931, 414; 127, 10 Jul 1931, 57; 75, 25 Mar 1933, 247; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 67 (no. 151, illus.); Richard Clarke, The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: a history, 1797-1997 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1997), 89(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 105(illus.),228(illus.),231-2(illus.),351-2,353,354. 

Name: TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1931
Nature: Ref. in Jones file incomplete, so not clear what T & F did here..
Refs: IB 73, 25 Apr 1931, 360a

Name: PRAEGER, ROSAMOND *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1933
Nature: Carved relief (Maternity) in porch of maternity hospital.
Refs: Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 232(illus.).

Name: EASTON & ROBERTSON ##
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1949
Nature: New clinical buildings, begun in autumn of 1949.
Refs: Country Life 106, 9 Sep 1949, 747

Name: EASTON & ROBERTSON ##
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
Date: 1953
Nature: Bostock House, 7 floors, to accommodate 220 nurses, opened 1953. Eye and Ear Clinic, opened 1965.
Refs: IB 95, 21 Nov 1953, 1207; 107, 27 Feb 1965, 145