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SEAVER, HENRY
- Born: 1860 Died: 1941
Architect, of Belfast. Henry Seaver, one of the six sons of the Very Rev. Charles Seaver, DD, Dean of Connor and his wife Fanny Ann (née Shields),(1) was born in Belfast in 1860.(2) He was educated in Belfast, first attending school at Methodist College and then studying engineering at Queen's College, from which he graduated with the BE degree in 1880. After serving his articles in the office of YOUNG & amp; MACKENZIE ,(3) he started independent practice in 1885. Among his first recorded commissions were premises for the Belfast Evening Telegraph in Royal Avenue, completed in 1886; in a long account of the building in the Irish Builder, Seaver was described as 'a rising young member of his profession in the town of Belfast'.(4) A number of domestic commissions followed; two of his house designs were reproduced in The Architect in 1888 and 1889.(5) Early recognition was followed by a long and busy career, which included several churches for the Church of Ireland, starting with St John's, Malone Road, where his brother was rector, and St Barnabas, Duncairn Gardens, both designed in 1892. His most imposing building in central Belfast was the Scottish Temperance Building (1904) on the corner of Bedford Street and Donegall Square, where he moved his own office in 1909. It was not until the 1930s that he took a partner, choosing his former pupil and assistant ROBERT HANNA GIBSON.
Seaver was active in the public life of Belfast and - according to his obituarist ('Aquilo') in the Irish Builder- took 'both a keen and a practical interest in philanthropic and educational movements'. He was appointed a Belfast Harbour Commissioner in 1908 and a member of the Northern Ireland Panel of Referees for the purpose of the Finance (1909-10) Act and of the Panel of Arbitrators for the purpose of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, in 1919.(6) He was a member of the Senate and deputy-chairman of Convocation of Queen's University and a governor of the Belfast Academical Institution; according to Larmour, it was Seaver who proposed the founding of the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1928.(7) During the First World War he acted as honorary architect to the Ulster Joint Committee of British Red Cross Society and Order of St John for whom he designed the convalescent hospital in Galwally Road, Belfast-. In 1918, when he was approaching sixty, he became a lay reader in the Church of Ireland.(8)
According 'Aquilo', Seaver had been 'in virtual retirement' for some time before his death, which took place on 6 May 1941 at home in Belfast.(9) He had married Norah, daughter of Charles William Lepper, of Belfast, and had three daughters and an only son, Charles, who was killed in the First World War. 'Aquilo' writes of his 'absolute rectitude, his kindliness of disposition, his knowledge of men and of books, his store of genial reminiscences…his humorous and sanely optimistic outlook'. As a young man he had been a keen sportsman and was a member of the Irish international lacrosse team; later he became a founding member of the Malone Golf Club.
As well as Robert Hanna Gibson, his pupils and assistants included ADELS ALEXANDER BLOUNT , GEORGE LEO WILLIE BLOUNT and THOMAS O'HARA.
RIAI: elected member, 2 May 1901, having been proposed by WILLIAM JOHN GILLILAND , seconded by SAMUEL PATRICK CLOSE and GEORGE WILLIAM CROWE ;(10) raised to fellow, 1917;(11) no longer on lists of members after 1929.
RSUA: council member, 1909; president, 1912-1913;(12) as president, joint assessor with HENRY ALBERT CUTLER of Belfast Working Class Housing competition, 1912;(13) hon. treasurer, 1914-1920.(14)
Addresses: Work: 35 Royal Avenue, Belfast, 1886-1887;(15) Royal Avenue, Belfast, 1892;(16) 128 Royal Avenue, Belfast, 1900-1908;(17) Scottish Temperance Building, 16 Donegall Square South, 1909 until death.
Home: Lisroyan, 154 Malone Road, Belfast, 1896; 30 Malone Road, 1911; 154 Malone Road at time of death.
See WORKS; see also works of SEAVER & amp; GIBSON.
References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the entry on Seaver in R.M. Young, Belfast and the Province of Ulster(1909), 602, from the article 'Irishmen of Note: Mr Henry Seaver, FRIAI, By "Aquilo'" in IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809, from the obituary in IB 83, 24 May 1941, 261, from Paul Larmour, 'The Squire of Malone', Perspective Jan/Feb 1995, 59-60, and from Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), II, 573.. The first, second and fourth sources are illustrated with portrait photographs of Seaver. There is also an obituary in Belfast Newsletter, 8 May 1941.
(1) R.M. Young, Belfast and the Province of Ulster(1909), 629.
(2) The Seavers were a family of Danish origins who held property in Co. Armagh in the nineteenth century; see G. Seaver, History of the Seaver Family (1950).
(3) Drawings by him of Young & Mackenzie's designs for the main doorway of Clifton Street Presbyterian Churchmain and for the main doorway of Kirke's warehouse, in Donegall Square, Belfast, are repr. in IB 23, 15 Apr 1881 and IB 24, 1 Sep 1882, respectively.
(4) IB 28, 1 Jul 1886, 200.
(5) These were for a 'villa residence near Belfast' , 17 Aug 1888, and for Glenfarlough, Strandtown, Belfast, 2 Aug 1889.
(6) IB 70, 3 Mar 1928, 204.
(7) Op. cit., above.
(8) Irish Times, 5 Sep 1918.
(9) Larmour, op. cit., above, gives the date as 7 May.
(10) RIAI general meeting minutes, 2 May 1901, 359; IAA, RIAI office archives (Acc. 93/136), membership forms 1878-1909 (extremely fragile).
(11) JRIAI (1918), 5.
(12) IB 54, 20 Jan,9 Nov 1912, 35,644; 55, 1 Feb,11 Oct 1913, 75,663.
(13) IB 54, 23 Nov 1912, 667.
(14) List of past office bearers in RSUA Jubilee Year Book 1951-1952, 5.
(15) IB 28, 20 Jul 1886, 200; 29, 15 Mar 1887, 80.
(16) IB 30, 1 Oct 1888, 254; 34, 1 Jun 1892, 124.
(17) IB 42, 1 Apr 1900, 323; RIAI lists of members.
94 work entries listed in chronological order for SEAVER, HENRY
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Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | New office & printing works at junction of Royal Ave & Little Donegall St; 'acknowledge to have the most im;osing exterior of any newspaper office in Ireland'. Style 'a free treatment of the Classic period'. Dumfries red sandstone used for principal elevations, red perforated brick for others. Contractor: H. & J. Martin, Ormeau Works, Belfast. |
Refs: | Architect 34, 9 Jul 1886, 28; IB 28, 1 Jul 1886, 199-200; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 289-90 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BOTANIC AVENUE, PARSONAGE |
Date: | 1886-87 |
Nature: | New red brick house with Dumfries stone dressings lately erected for select vestry of Drew Memorial Church. Completed early 1887. Contractor: Fitzpatrick Bros, Great Victoria St. |
Refs: | IB 28, 15 Jul 1886, 212; 29, 15 Mar 1887, 80 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, HIGH STREET (& EDWARD STREET), SHOP (JOSEPH FLEMING) |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | New shop nearly completed by Oct 1888. 55' frontage to High St, 95' frontage to Edward St. Local brick, Portland cement dressings, Bangor slates, Wwhite Ashton Hall bricks for chimneys. Contractor: Collen Bros., Portadown. |
Refs: | IB 30, 1 Oct 1888, 254 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, KNOCK, HOUSE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Villa residence for R.W. Francis Graham. Red perforated bricks with Dumfries stone dressings. Internal joinery in yellow and pitch pine. |
Refs: | Architect40, 17 Aug 1888, 91(illus.?) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BALLYNAFEIGH, HOUSES (002) |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | Tenders received for building same. |
Refs: | IB 31, 1 Jul 1889, 172 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, LISBURN, NICHOLSON MEMORIAL SCHOOLS |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | Adds. Tender of A. Sinclair, Lisburn (£580) accepted. |
Refs: | IB 31, 1 Jul 1889, 172; Architect 41, 21 Jun 1889, suppl. p.3 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL PLACE (& DONEGALL SQUARE N), SHOPS |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | Being built for Dr Armstrong. Contractor: H. & J. Martin. |
Refs: | PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/5; IB 31, 15 Jul 1889, 191 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, LISBURN, HOUSE |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | Alts., for Hugh Fraser. |
Refs: | Architect 41, 15 Mar 1889, 6 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANDTOWN, GLENFARLOUGH |
Date: | 1889 |
Nature: | Large red-brick villa for James Taylor, Esq. Perforated brick walls with Dumfries stone dressings. Contractor: H. & J. Martin, Belfast. |
Refs: | Architect, 2 Aug 1889, 65(illus.) (?also Architect 39, 25 May 1888, suppl.p.3) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHURCH OF ST PHILIP OR DREW MEMORIAL CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1889-1890 |
Nature: | Enlargement of mission hall & school. |
Refs: | Architect 42, 13 Dec 1889, suppl. p.1; IB 32, 1 May 1890, 112 |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, JOHN STREET, CATHEDRAL (FORMERLY CHURCH) OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1890 |
Nature: | Church painted and decorated to designs of HS by Mssrs. Meldrum, Sligo. HS also designed prayer desk and sedilia presented by Christopher L'Estrange in memory of his parents, executed by A.P. Sharp, Dublin. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 27 Aug 1890. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BLOOMFIELD, HOUSE |
Date: | 1890ca |
Nature: | New villa. |
Refs: | Architect, 17 Jan 1890, suppl. p.1 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, UNIVERSITY STREET, ALL SAINT'S SCHOOL HOUSE & PAROCHIAL HALL |
Date: | 1890ca |
Nature: | New. |
Refs: | Architect, ? ? 1890, ? |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DUNCAIRN GARDENS, CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS (CI) |
Date: | 1891-92 |
Nature: | Church for new district formed out of parish of St James. Early English style. To accommodate 550 worshippers, increasing to 779 when south aisle is added. Contract, Oct 1891 (£2,425). Memorial stone laid 7 May 1892 by Lord Mayor of Belfast, Daniel Dixon, JP.. Opened 20 Dec 1892. Contractor: Thomas McMillan, Belfast. Pulpit by Purdy & Millard. (Destroyed in blitz, 1941) |
Refs: | Architect, 23 Oct 1891, suppl. p.3; B 62, 21 May 1892, 405; 63, 31 Dec 1892, 525; IB 34, 15 May,1 Jun 1892, 117,124; 35, 1 Jan 1893, 11 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 050 (LANSDOWNE) |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | Red brick 3 storey, with minimal half timbering to gable. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 117 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ?, STAR MUSIC HALL |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | New music hall to be built. |
Refs: | Architect 47, 22 Apr 1892, suppl. p.9 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, ST JOHN'S CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1892-96 |
Nature: | New English Decorated Gothic church to seat 600. FS laid 3 Jun 1893. Chancel & transepts consecrated 21(or 22?) Apr 1894. Nave added 1905-6. Scrabo sandstone with Aberfoyle slates. Contractor: W.J. Campbell & Son. (HS's brother Richard was rector of this church.) |
Refs: |
IB 35, 15 Jul 1893, 168; B 65, 8 Jul 1893, 34; John Frederick MacNeice, The Church of Ireland in Belfast (Belfast, 1931), 41-2; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 56 (no. 130, illus.); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 105; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 218(illus.) date transepts to 1906(N) and 1908(S). |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 148 (ST JOHN'S RECTORY) |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Plain red-brick house designed for his brother the Rev. Richard Whitchurch Seaver, rector of St John's. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991),127 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 154 (LISROYAN) |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Roughcast, red tiled house, designed for himself. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991),127 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, RICHMOND PARK, NO. 002 |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Built as clubhouse for Malone Golf Club. Extended on E side, 1906, by Graeme-Watt and Tulloch. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 152-3 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, PRINCE'S STREET, BROWNE, CORBETT & CO. |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Adds. to bonded store, new stores, cooperage & stabling to be erected. |
Refs: | IB 38, 1 Jul 1896, 144 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MARLBOROUGH PARK SOUTH, NO. 109-115 |
Date: | 1898 |
Nature: | 2 pairs of semi-detached red brick houses. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 133 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 006 & 8 |
Date: | 1898 |
Nature: | Pair of semi-detached villas attr. to HS by Larmour on basis of similarity to Nos. 1 & 3. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 53 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, HEATH HALL (NEWRY) |
Date: | 1898ca |
Nature: | HS employed by his cousin Jonathan C.P.B. Seaver to add entrance tower to Heath Hall the family home to commemorate return from Australia of his father, the ageing Thomas Seaver, who d. 1900. (In ruins by 2013.) |
Refs: |
George Fenn. Seaver,History of the Seaver family (1950), 115(illus. facing p. 114); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 447. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MYRTLEFIELD PARK, NO. 064 & 66 |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Pair of detached red brick and roughcast villas with timber porches and some Art Nouveau leaded lights. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 141 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 010 & 12 |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Pair of semi-detached villas attr. to HS by Larmour on basis of similarity to Nos. 1 & 3. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 53 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE DRIVE, NO. 024 |
Date: | 1899;1911 |
Nature: | Red brick house with canted bays designed for Alexander Thompson 1899 but not built until 1911 by Robert Thompson. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 51 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 001 & 3 |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | Pair of semi-detached villas for Thomas Shanks. Builder: James Kidd, Leadbetter St. |
Refs: | IB 42, 1 Feb 1900, 256; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 51 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 028 (ASSN. FOR EMPLOYMENT OF INDUSTRIOUS BLIND) |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | New shop & stores in Berry St. Tenders invited Mar 1900. |
Refs: | B 78, 19 Mar 1900, 278; IB 42, 1 Apr 1900, 323 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BERRY STREET, SHOPS & STORES |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting same. |
Refs: | B 78, 17 Mar 1900, 278 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, BANGOR, RANFURLY AVENUE, NO. 043 (LAUREL LODGE) |
Date: | 1900-1901 |
Nature: | New two-storey classical red brick house with pinkish sandstone dressings for Charles Lepper. (Later Garth House School) |
Refs: | Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 182 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 021 & 23 |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Pair of semi-detached villas for Thomas Shanks. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 52 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BLOOMFIELD, ST DONARD'S PARISH SCHOOL |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | New? |
Refs: | IB 43, 27 Mar 1901, 675 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK SOUTH, NO. 016 |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Plain red brick villa. For Thomas Shanks. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 54 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI) |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Addition of transept. |
Refs: | IB 44, ? ? 1902, 1348; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 223 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DRUMBO, HOUSE |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | New villa. For Mr A. McIlroy. Tenders invited Apr 1902. |
Refs: | B 88, 26 Apr 1902, 434; IB 44, 8 May 1902, 1240 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 018 |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Red brick villa with canted bays & hipped dormers. For Thomas Shanks. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 53 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, NO. 027-45 (LINCOLN BUILDINGS) |
Date: | 1902-03 |
Nature: | New 6-storey red brick warehouse. |
Refs: | IB 44, 22 May,5 Jun 1902, 1254,1274; B 86, 30 Jan 1904, 115; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 166 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FRANKLIN STREET, FRANKLIN HOUSE (S. SINCLAIR & CO.) |
Date: | 1902-3;1907;191 |
Nature: | New warehouse. Tenders being sought? 1902-3. Extensions, 1907, 1910.(McLaughlin & Harvey contractor for latter: was this in Howard St?). |
Refs: | IB 44, 4,18 Dec 1902, 1510,1524; 45, 1 Jan 1903, 1540; 49, 20 Apr 1907, 288; 52, 30 Apr 1910, 281; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 44 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK SOUTH, NO. 006 |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Roughcast with half-timbered gables. For J.A. McAuley. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 54 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, OLDPARK ROAD, SCHOOL |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | New school for St Silas's church. Foundations just laid, May 1904. |
Refs: | B 86, 28 May 1904, ? |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 138 |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Asymmetrical red brick house. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 124 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE SOUTH, NO. 015-16 (SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE BUILDINGS) |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Large Scottish Baronial block of shops and offices. Tenders invited May 1904. Tender of James Henry & Sons, Crumlin Rd, contractors accepted. To cost about £40,000. |
Refs: | IB 46, 21 May,4 Jun,8 Oct 1904, 302,350,648,846(illus. in supplement); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 73 (no. 164, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 120,135(illus.) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, NO. 150 (JENNYMOUNT) |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Red brick and roughcast 2-storey villa, for Mrs Thompson. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991),127 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK SOUTH, NO. 001 |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Red brick villa with half-timbered gable. For Thomas Shanks. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 53 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, JAMES BLACK & CO. |
Date: | 1904a |
Nature: | New block of warehouses, shops & offices just completed for James Black & Co. Building contractor: James Henry & Son, Crumlin Rd. |
Refs: | IB 46, 16 Jan 1904, 40 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MYRTLEFIELD PARK, NO. 019 (INGLEDENE) |
Date: | 1906 |
Nature: | Red brick & roughcast with red tiled roof and tile-hung gables. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 139 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MYRTLEFIELD PARK, NO. 077 |
Date: | 1906 |
Nature: | Edwardian villa with Art Nouveau leaded lights and a good open timber porch. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 140 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, CULTRA, THE HILL |
Date: | 1907 |
Nature: | New house, for F.J. Heyn, Esq. Tender of H. & J. Martin (£3,000) accepted. |
Refs: | IB 49, 19 Oct,2 Nov 1907, 729,754; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of North County Down (UAHS, 2002), 130 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH) |
Date: | 1907 |
Nature: | New 5 storey ferro-concrete extension on Hennebique system on site formerly occupied by J. & R. O'Kane in Library St by McLaughlin & Harvey for W. & G. Baird. Under construction in Dec 1907. |
Refs: | IB 49, 4 May,15 Jun, 28 Dec 1907, 324,425,893 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, RATHFRILAND, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, DRUMGATH PARISH) |
Date: | 1908 |
Nature: | Parish church 'has just been thoroughly renoveated under the supervision of the architect, Mr. Henry Seaver, B.E., Belfast'. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 21 Aug 1908. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DERAMORE PARK, NO. 027 |
Date: | 1908 |
Nature: | Symmetrical 2-storey red brick villa with window shutters. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 52 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 028 (ASSN. FOR EMPLOYMENT OF INDUSTRIOUS BLIND) |
Date: | 1908-09 |
Nature: | Almost total reconstruction of workshops destroyed by fire in 1908. Contractor: H. & J. Martin. Facade in 'Marmo' by Leeds Fireclay Co. (Demolished c.1985 for Castlecourt development.) |
Refs: | IB 50, 27 Jun,25 Jul 1908, 405,465; B 96, 17 Apr 1909, 474-5; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical Gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 287 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, ANNALONG, LINTON MEMORIAL HALL |
Date: | 1909 |
Nature: | New. Tenders invited May 1909. |
Refs: | B 96, 22 May 1909, 628; IB 51, 29 May 1909, 341 |
Building: | CO. SLIGO, LONGFORD HOUSE |
Date: | 1909a |
Nature: | Rebuilding, for Sir Malby Crofton, 3rd Bt.. |
Refs: | R.M. Young, Belfast and the Province of Ulster(1909), 602; IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, KENT STREET, PREMISES (W. & G. BAIRD) |
Date: | 1909c |
Nature: | Warehouse for Messrs W. & G. Baird Ltd. 'Superload on Ferro-Concrete floors, 3cwt per square foot'. |
Refs: |
L. G. Mouchel & Partners, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete (1909), 221 (illus.) (in IAA collection, IEI 151). |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DOWNSHIRE PLACE, WAREHOUSE (JOHN THOMPSON & SONS) |
Date: | 1910 |
Nature: | Rebuilding after fire. Tender of William Dowling, Belfast, for £1,100 accepted. |
Refs: | IB 52, 19 Mar,11 Jun 1910, 181,382 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, CASTLE STREET, SHOPS & WAREHOUSES |
Date: | 1910 |
Nature: | Plans for new shops & warehouses for Mr Clarke. |
Refs: | IB 52, 15 Oct,12 Nov 1910, 643,703 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BALLYDIVITY HOUSE |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Proposed alts for Stewart Moore family. Not executed. |
Refs: | C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Co. Antrim (1996), 146 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH) |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Tender of James Hogg & Sons, Ormeau Rd, accepted for new premises (i.e. extension) in Library & Union Sts. |
Refs: | IB 53, 19 Aug 1911, 562 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, DUNDRUM, CHURCH OF ST DONARD (CI, DOWNSHIRE MEMORIAL) |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | Repairs. |
Refs: | IB 55, 24 May 1913, 351 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GALWALLY PARK, HILDON CONVALESCENT HOME |
Date: | 1917 |
Nature: | To be opened shortly for Ulster Joint Committee of British Red Cross Society and Order of St John. Substantially built with wooden extension. HS hon. architect. Contractor: H. & J. Martin. |
Refs: | IB 59, 14 Apr 1917, 183 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ?, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922 |
Nature: | Contractor: Henry Laverty & Sons. |
Refs: | IB 64, 18 Nov 1922, 792 |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922-23 |
Nature: | New premises just completed. Contractor: Henry Laverty & Son, Belfast. |
Refs: | IB 65, 2 Jun 1923, 426; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 496; n E.D. Hill, Northern Bank, 51 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MARLBOROUGH PARK SOUTH, VICTORIA COLLEGE SCHOOL |
Date: | 1922-23;1928 |
Nature: | Remodelling of Drumglass House to serve as hostel for 100 students and laying out of grounds for recreational purposes, 1922, and? dormitory at rear of Drumglass House, 1923; sun parlour, 1928. |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 130 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | New? |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | New bank. (Replaced in 1980s.) |
Refs: |
IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 509. |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, MARKET STREET, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | New? |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, DUNGANNON, NORTHLAND PLACE, NORTHLAND HOUSE |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Northland House. |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL) |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Gosford Castle. |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Tandragee Castle. |
Refs: | Reports on castle by HS, 1912-14, in PRONI, D2223/15/37 (see PRONI e-catalogue); IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, SKERRIES, STRAND STREET GREAT, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | New? |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELFAST CASTLE |
Date: | 1922a |
Nature: | HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Belfast Castle. |
Refs: | IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, KNOCKAGH HILL (GREENISLAND), CO. ANTRIM WAR MEMORIAL |
Date: | 1922p |
Nature: | Proposed 110' high basalt obelisk with names of all Co. Antrim men who fell in First World War 'which is to rise on Knockagh Hill'. (Built in much reduced form) |
Refs: | IB 64, 21 Oct,2 Dec 1922, 722,809; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Co. Antrim (1996), 297(illus.) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, TEMPLEPATRICK, ORANGE HALL, WAR MEMORIAL |
Date: | 1923 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for building war memorial at Orange Hall. |
Refs: | IB 65, 19 May 1923, 385 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, YORK ROAD (& PITTSBURGH STREET), ST PAUL'S HALL |
Date: | 1923 |
Nature: | Plans approved for memorial hall for vestry of St Paul's Church. |
Refs: | IB 65, 11 Aug 1923, 620 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, LISBURN, MARKET STREET (& RAILWAY STREET), NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1923-24 |
Nature: | Rebuilding. Contractor: Dowling Ltd., Cromwell Rd, Belfast. |
Refs: | IB 65, 10 Mar 1923, 177; 66, 25 Jun 1924, 578; E.D. Hill, Northern Bank, 53 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, PORTRUSH, KELLY MEMORIAL SCHOOLS |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Rebuilding. |
Refs: | IB 66, 23 Feb 1924, 150 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH, MASONIC HALL |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | New. Tenders invited. |
Refs: | IB 66, 17 May 1924, 446 |
Building: | CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, TULLYBRANNIGAN CEMETERY, CHAPEL OF ST COLMAN (CI) |
Date: | 1925-27 |
Nature: | Romanesque mortuary chapel. Tenders invited Sep-Oct 1925. Consecrated 28 Jul 1927. |
Refs: | IB 67, 5 Sep,17 Oct 1925, 734,861; Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 224(illus.). |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH) |
Date: | 1926 |
Nature: | Addition in Little Donegall St, for W. & G. Baird. Plans approved by City Surveyor. |
Refs: | IB 68, 9 Jan 1926, 21 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, KENT STREET, PREMISES (W. & G. BAIRD) |
Date: | 1926 |
Nature: | Plans for new stores approved by City Surveyor. |
Refs: | IB 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, CHURCH OF ST MARK (CI) |
Date: | 1928-1930 |
Nature: | War memorial tower replacing smaller original tower. FS laid in or before Nov 1928. To cost £10,000. Contractor: Collen Bros, Portadown. |
Refs: |
IB 70, 3 Mar,10 Nov 1928, 195,967; 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994; C.E.B. Brett, D., Dunleath, R. Oram & A.J. Rowan. Historic Buildings…in the designated area of the Craigavon Development Commission (UAHS, 1970), 3; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 504. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, HOLYWOOD ROAD (DUNDELA), ST MARK'S CHURCH HALL |
Date: | 1929 |
Nature: | New hall. Presented by widow and sons of F.L. Heyn. |
Refs: | John Frederick MacNeice, The church of Ireland in Belfast (Belfast, 1931),37. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, KENILWORTH PLACE, CHURCH OF ST MARTIN (CI) |
Date: | 1932-33 |
Nature: | Mission church in parish of Ballymacarrett, built with financial assistance from Southern Church Mission. Consecrated 8 Apr 1933. |
Refs: | IB 74, 19 Nov 1932, 1052; Clergy of Down & Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 85(illus.) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, SAUL, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | New church to commemorate St Patrick's landing in Ireland at Saul. FS laid Ascension Day 1933. Dedicated All Saints' Day 1933. Contractor: Cairns Bros. |
Refs: | IB 75, 8 Apr,6 May 1933, 292,370; watercolour view by R.H. Gibson exh. RHA 1946, Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996)155(illus.); Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 139(illus.); R. Oram, Expressions of Faith: Ulster's Church Heritage (2001), 91(illus.) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, UNIVERSITY ROAD (& LOWER CRESC.), VICTORIA COLLEGE GYMNASIUM |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | Plans appr. for addition to same. |
Refs: | IB 75, 9 Sep 1933, 781 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WOODVALE ROAD, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW (CI) |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | North vestry. |
Refs: | IB 75, 1 Jul 1933, 566; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 41 (no. 84) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROSEMARY STREET, CLIFTON, SON & CO. |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | Plans approved for alts. |
Refs: | IB 75, 26 Aug 1933, 734 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MARLBOROUGH PARK SOUTH, VICTORIA COLLEGE SCHOOL |
Date: | 1933 |
Nature: | Recreation and assembly hall. 90 x 40 ft. Roughcast. Contractor: William Dowling, Cromwell Rd, Belfast. |
Refs: | IB 75, 15,29 Jul,12 Aug 1933, 610,632,699; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 130 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL CLOSE, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
Date: | 1934a |
Nature: | Extensive renovations to roof, which was put on about 100 years earlier during Cottingham restoration. |
Refs: | IB 76, 24 Mar 1934, 245 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORBY STREET, ORANGEFIELD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HALL |
Date: | 1936 |
Nature: | - |
Refs: | IB 78, 27 Jun 1936, 572 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE ROAD, ST JOHN'S CHURCH HALL |
Date: | 1938 |
Nature: | Rustic brick with reconstructed stone dressings, facing Osborne Pk. |
Refs: | IB 80, 11 Jun 1938, 497; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 109 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 012-22 |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'rather Gothic brick linen warehouse...for Moore & Weinberg' replaced by DHSS Offices 1984-85. |
Refs: | Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 214,231(illus.) (Patton gives impossibly early date of c. 1875) |