Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD, COUNTY COURT HOUSE

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1848-50
Nature: New Neo-Palladian court house with tetrastyle Corinthian portico,. Builder: James Carlisle. Cost £22,000.
Refs: APSD I,B 57; C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 29,31, Pl. 24; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 16 (no. 26(illus.)

Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1850
Nature: Statue of Justice surmounting pediment of building by JRK. (Architect: Charles Lanyon)
Refs: Brett (revised edition, 1985), 31

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CRUMLIN ROAD, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1905-1907
Nature: New front containing 2 new wings extending on each side of hexastyle portico and in front of Crown and Record Courts. For Antrim Co. Council and Belfast Borough Council. Y & M 'secured the commission in a manner not beyond criticism'.Contractor: R. Corry & Co. Cost: £12,500. (Harron says cost was £14,850.)
Refs: IB 47, 12,26 Aug,23 Sep,7 Oct,18 Nov 1905, 524,594,676,685,830; 49, 6 Apr 1907, 252; B 92, 30 Mar 1907, 605; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 50