Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Belfast. John McCutcheon supervised the erection of the Belfast Academical Institution, designed by JOHN SOANE JOHN SOANE , which was finished in 1814.(1) He was also the contracting architect of the Commercial Buildings in Waring Street, Belfast (1822), the front of which, according to Brett, 'looks as though it ought to be attributed to a more sophisticated designer'.(2) He was a subscriber to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion(Dublin, 1819).

Address: Great Edward Street, Belfast.(3)

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References



(1) C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 15.
(2) Brett, op. cit., 17.
(3) Information from C.E.B. Brett's architects files.


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Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WARING STREET, NO. 001-3 (COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS)
Date: 1820ca
Nature: JC contracting architect for same, but Brett thinks that design may have been by another architect.
Refs: APSD, I, B, 57; Edwin D. Hill, The Northern Banking Company (1925), 196(illus.; illus. of thatched cottages which originally occupied site on p.197); C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 45; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 17.