Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE, STATUE OF EARL OF BELFAST
| Name: | MACDOWELL, PATRICK * |
| Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE, STATUE OF EARL OF BELFAST |
| Date: | 1853-55 |
| Nature: | Bronze statue of Earl of Belfast. Inaugurated Oct or Nov 1855. Moved to city hall, 1874. Known as 'the black man'. Replaced by statue of Dr Henry Cooke by S.F. Lynn, 1876. |
| Refs: | B 11, 8 Oct 1853, 636 (wrongly called Edward McDowell); 13, 10 Nov 1855, 542; Architect 11, ? ? 1874, p.366; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 57; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 74; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 73, Figs.94,320. |
| Name: | LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) |
| Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE SQUARE, STATUE OF EARL OF BELFAST |
| Date: | 1855 |
| Nature: | Plinth designed by CL. |
| Refs: | B 13, 10 Nov 1855, 542; C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 57 |