Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)

Name: MYLNE, ROBERT #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1770
Nature: RM supplied plans (unexecuted)
Refs: Diary of Robert Mylne, 19 May 1770, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Archive, MyFam\128\3, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/ (last visited Jun 2009);  A.E. Richardson, ed., Robert Mylne (1955), 43(illus.),86; P. & B. Rowan Antiquarian and Fine Books, Catalogue 31, The Eighteenth Century, No. 26, gives a full account of the selection of a design for the Poor House, citing Committee Books of the Belfast Charitable Society (microfilm in PRONI) and R.M.W. Strain, Belfast and its Charitable Society(1961).

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1770
Nature: TC supplied plans (unexecuted) and consulted re choice of design.
Refs: P. & B. Rowan Antiquarian and Fine Books, Catalogue 31, The Eighteenth Century, No. 26, gives a full account of the selection of a design for the Poor House, citing Committee Books of the Belfast Charitable Society (microfilm in PRONI) and R.M.W. Strain, Belfast and its Charitable Society(1961).

Name: JOY, ROBERT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1771ca
Nature: RJ's design (based on one furnished by Robert Mylne) adopted.  FS laid, 1 Aug 1771.
Refs: Irish Times, 2 Dec 1911;  C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 4, citing R.W.M. Strain, Belfast and its Charitable Society (1961), 35; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 1 (no. 1).

Name: FOOT, EDWARD
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1771ca
Nature: Submitted unexecuted plans. Appointed superintendent of works, July 1771, but dismissed sson afterwards.
Refs: R.W.M. Strain, Belfast and its Charitable Society (1961), 40; Brett, 4.

Name: DUNLAP, HUGH *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1771ca
Nature: HD employed on construction; proposes cupola as alternative to spire.
Refs: Brett, 4-5

Name: ANDERSON, WILLIAM *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1774ca
Nature: Mason work on W. wing
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast, lst edn., 1967, p.4

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1866
Nature: Addition of Charters wing
Refs: DB 8, 15 Jan,1 Feb 1866, 28,42; IB 9, 15 Jan 1867, 21; Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 44; Brett, 5; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 1

Name: HASTINGS, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1872
Nature: Addition of Benn wing, for Edward Benn of Glenravel House.
Refs: Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 241

Name: FERGUSON, GODFREY WILLIAM
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1887
Nature: Dining hall.
Refs: Brett, 5.

Name: FERGUSON, GODFREY WILLIAM
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTH QUEEN STREET, CLIFTON HOUSE (BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
Date: 1938
Nature: Gate lodge.
Refs: Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical Gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 241