Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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