Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: COURTNEY, F.W.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1857
Nature: FWC exhibits competition design at RHA.
Refs: RHA 1858, no. 356

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1857
Nature: Competition entrant, placed 2nd.
Refs: Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 20; Brett, 38

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1857
Nature: Was TT a competition entrant? See Graves, which credits Thomas Turner (wrongly called Thackeray Turner), of London, with a design for Ulster Bank, exh. RA 1859, no. 1090. (Anonymous competition design for bank in Ulster Museum attr. to Thomas Turner by Dixon.)
Refs: Graves, IV, T, 42;  Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 25,no. 122(illus.).

Name: HAMILTON, JAMES [2]#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1858-1860
Nature: JH winner of competition (announced, Aug 1857) out of 40 competitors with design for 'an exuberant and ornate Renaissance palazzo' (Larmour). Work supervised by James Moore. Builder: D. & J. Fulton. Carving: Mssrs. Fitzpatrick.
Refs: Unsigned designs for banking hall fittings (not necessarily by JH), Jul 1859, in Ulster Bank archive, Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, ULS 387;  drawing(s) for cash office fittings by [James Hamilton], 98 West , 1858, seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast UB/N1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972);  B 16, 10 Apr,11Sep 1858, 250,615; 17, 4 Jun 1859, 374; 18, ?27 Oct 1860, 688; 19, 20 Apr 1861, 263; DB 1, 1 Jun,1 Oct 1859, 66,134-5; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 25,nos.120,121, illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 20 (no. 35, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 316(illus.),330

Name: MOORE, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1858-1860
Nature: Work supervised by James Moore 'who represents Mr Hamilton, the architect and so efficiently superintends the progress of the work'.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Jun,1 Oct 1859, 66,135

Name: JACKSON, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1859;1869;1873
Nature: Proposed bank, 1859.  Extension, 1869.  Extension with glass roof for lavatories, 1873.
Refs: Drawing(s) seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast, UB/1A, UB/N1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972).

Name: FITZPATRICK BROS. *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Carved stonework on facade.
Refs: IB 1, 1 Jun 1859, 66; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 44 (illus. Pl. 40); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 20 (no. 35, illus.)

Name: HANNA, JAMES A.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1920s
Nature: Proposed internal renovations.
Refs: Drawing(s\) seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast, UB/N1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972).

Name: BLACKWOOD & JURY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 035-39 (ULSTER BANK)
Date: 1929
Nature: Skipper St extension
Refs: Undated drawing(s) seen by Hugh Dixon, 1972, formerly in Ulster Bank Premises Department, Belfast, UB/1A (destroyed in bomb attack, 1972);  IB 71, 9 Nov 1929, 1007; 72, 12 Apr 1930, 337.