Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Name: | SOANE, JOHN (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1808-1814 |
Nature: | JS prepares 7 alternative schemes gratis. Modified designs executed . FS laid 3 Jul 1810. Finished 1814. Officially completed 5 Jun 1815. North wing added 1834 'almost certainly to original designs'(Brett). Interior subsequently remodelled. |
Refs: | 7 variant designs, d: 5 May 1808 - 18 Feb 1809, in Soane Museum, Drawer 71. Set. 5, nos. 1-41 & 43; bird's eye perspective in Soane Museum, Vol 90, no. 5; another bird's eye perspective in Victoria & Albert Museum, see Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey, Sir John Soane (Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985), 42; designs in PRONI, T 1580; correspondence re building of school, 1808, in PRONI, SCH/524/7B (see PRONI e-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx , last visited Nov 2011; J.H. Robb, Royal Belfast Academical Institution Centenary Volume (1913), 44 ff.; correspondence in PRONI, Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect (1984), 270; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 14-15, Pl.14 |
Name: | BOWDEN, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1809a |
Nature: | JB sends plans for same. Applies unsuccessfully to superintend building of Soane's design, 1810. |
Refs: | Printed Report of Managers of Academical Institution, Belfast., for year ending 4 July 1809 in Soane Museum, SM Archive : Private Correspondence V.F.; letters from JB to Dr Groves, 28 Mar 1809, and to Joseph Stevenson, 30 Jul 1809, 11 Apr 1910, in PRONI,SCH/524. |
Name: | ELSAM, RICHARD # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | Design for principal front exh. Society of Artists of Ireland, 1810 (no. 1). Unexecuted. |
Refs: | ALEI, I, 218 |
Name: | BOYD, JAMES [2] |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1814 |
Nature: | Building of Soane's design supervised by John McCutcheon and JB |
Refs: | Brett, 15 |
Name: | GOODWIN, FRANCIS # |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | Unexecuted design for extensive adds. (Brett says N wing was added in 1834) |
Refs: | APSD III, G, 61; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 435; C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd edn., 1985), 15. |
Name: | MILLAR, JOHN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | JM architect of extensions to same? Contractor: Matthew Mackenzie. |
Refs: |
Copy letters from Adam McClean to Mr Millar, architect, of York St, Belfast, and notes made at sub-committee meetings, Apr-May 1834, in PRONI, SCH/524/7B/72/2,4,5,11 (see PRONI e-catalogue). |
Name: | JACKSON, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1874 |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for hall to project from centre of facade. |
Refs: | Hugh Dixon, 'Honouring Thomas Jackson', Proceedings and Reports of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society 9 (1970-77), 29 |
Name: | JACKSON, THOMAS, & SON |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1878 |
Nature: | 3 large classrooms and laboratory at rere. Builder: McCammond. Also Common Hall (demolished). |
Refs: | IB 20, 1 Dec 1878, 353; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd. ed., 1985), 15 |
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | Plans for swimming bath and extension to covered playground. |
Refs: |
PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 344. |
Name: | BLACKWOOD & JURY |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Alts. & adds; physical lab. |
Refs: | IB 43, 6 Jun,19 Dec 1901, 757,976 |
Name: | WATT, TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1914-1915 |
Nature: | Addition of west block. |
Refs: | IB 56, 23 May 1914, 327; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 3 (no. 4); C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 15 |
Name: | GIBSON, ROBERT HANNA |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1932 |
Nature: | Adds. |
Refs: | IB 74, 2 Jul 1932, 614 |
Name: | FERGUSON & MCILVEEN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1951 |
Nature: | Extension. |
Refs: | IB 92, 10 Nov 1951, 1172 |
Name: | WILSHERE, REGINALD SHARMAN |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE EAST, ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1953 |
Nature: | Proposal for adds. exh. Royal Academy, 1953. |
Refs: | RA 1953, no. 1109 |