Selected: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Name: | BOYD, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1853 |
Nature: | 'Mr Boyd of Belfast' placed second in competition for designing school, which was won by Isaac Farrell. |
Refs: | B 11, 22 Oct 1853, 654 |
Name: | FARRELL, ISAAC |
Building: | CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1853;1857-60 |
Nature: | Isaac Farrell wins competition for same. Plain 2-storey block. FS laid 4 Jun 1857. In progress, 1859, when cost expect to be about £4,000. Builder: Kilpatrick, Coleraine. |
Refs: | B 11, 20 Aug,22 Oct 1853, 533,654; 15, 20 Jun 1857, 355; IB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 22; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 24(illus.).25(no. 64) Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207; J. Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation 1609-1914 (Chichester, 1986), 392,Pl.315. |
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1876-1894 |
Nature: | Robert Young consulted about extensions to school, 1876. Y & M receive intermediate payment of £20 for new building, Dec 1880. Addition of Classical, 4-storey over basement wing ('Old Boys' Wing'), opened 1894. |
Refs: |
PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1,2; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 25-26; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 119(illus.),341-2. |
Name: | CRAIG, VINCENT |
Building: | CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1906 |
Nature: | Entrance gateway in memory of Maud Houston. Builder: D.H. Christie, Coleraine. |
Refs: | W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 15(illus.),26; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207. |
Name: | DALZELL, CROFTON G. |
Building: | CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION |
Date: | 1956-57 |
Nature: | Extension: classrooms, dining room and assembly hall. £85,000. |
Refs: | IB 98, 21 Apr 1956, 377; 99, 15 Jun 1957, 473 |