Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840a;1849;1850
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £7000. Cost of fittings &c.: £2869. Accommodation for 1000. Completed 1 Jan 1841. First admissions 11 May 1841.Fever hospital, 1849. Detached extension for 1000 children, 1850.
Refs: 3rd Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 78; Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 2(illus.),18-19,24(illus.),26(illus.),illus. on back cover; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 259

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1850ca
Nature: Gate lodge, 'reputedly by Charles Lanyon'.
Refs: A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 26

Name: JACKSON, THOMAS, & SON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1870
Nature: Plan for converting part of school building so as to accommodate infirmary patients.
Refs: IB 12, 15 Feb 1870, 48

Name: MACKINNON, JAMES FRANCIS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1880
Nature: 2 new 3-storey blocks (1 for males and 1 for females)for reception of lunatics and epileptics to be erected. Contractor: Fitzpatrick Bros.
Refs: Architect 23, 28 Aug 1880, 139-40