Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER

Name: LINKLATER, MORTIMER HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Placed third in competition. Complains about conduct of competition.
Refs: B 23, 24 Jun 1865, 447; 24, 14 Apr,19 May 1866, 273,374

Name: MCGUINNESS, WILLIAM BINGHAM
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Competition entrant
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1868 (no. 298)

Name: MAYE, J.A.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Competition entrant. Design exh. at RA 1866.
Refs: RA catalogue, 1866, no. 791 (not in Graves).

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Competition entrants. Competition won by W.J. Barre.
Refs: Competition perspective view by W.H. Lynn in Ulster Museum, see H. Dixon, William Henry Lynn (Ulster Museum, 1878), no. 8, and Martyn Anglesea, 'The Lynn Brothers, architect and sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-90, 258(illus.); B 23, 24 Jun,8,22 Jul 1865, 447,487,525,539; 24, 14 Apr 1866, 273; DB 7, 15 Jun,1 Jul,1 Aug 1865, 153,164,183 (but see Brett, 40-41, for scandal attending competition); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 321

Name: BROWN, WILLIAM RAFFLES
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Competition entrant
Refs: DB 8, 1 Jan 1866, 8 (illus.)

Name: SORBY, THOMAS CHARLES #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: B 24, 2 Jun 1866, 331.

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865-9
Nature: WJB wins competition. Design may be by his chief assistant, Charles Sherry. Contractor: Fitzpatrick Bros. (£2,550).
Refs: Perspective view in Ulster Museum, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 27 (no. 138, repr. in unpaginated plate section) also in Martyn Anglesea, 'The Lynn Brothers, architect and sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-90, 258(illus.); PRONI, Fitzpatrick Bros. papers, D1905/1/2,8; B 23, 24 Jun, 8 Jul, 29 Jul 1865, 447,487,539; 24, 14 Apr, 1866, 273; 28, 15 Jan 1870, 42; DB 7, 1,15? Aug, 1865, 183,216; 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), 33-42, Pl.18; Edwin D. Hill, The Northern Banking Company (1925), 183(illus. shows building in progress); Brett, 40-41; Larmour,26-27(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 304(illus.),321; Paul Larmour, 'The eclectic style of W.J.Barre', Perspective, Mar-Apr 1984, 63

Name: SHERRY, CHARLES ACTON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1865-9
Nature: W.J. Barre's prizewinning design may have been by his chief assistant, Charles Sherry.
Refs: Briefs, etc, in dispute concerning construction of Albert Memorial: Mr Sherrie, Architect. Fitzpatrick Bros. -v- Moore & Girdwood Executors of Barre. Albert Memorial, Belfast. [1869] in PRON, Fitzpatrick Papers,I D1905/1/8 (see PRONI e-catalogue);  article on Belfast architecture by James Ferguson in IB Jubilee No. (1909), 41;  Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),321.

Name: LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, ALBERT MEMORIAL CLOCK TOWER
Date: 1869
Nature: Statue of Prince Albert.
Refs: IB 18, 15 Apr 1876, 102; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 34; Brett, 2nd ed. 1985, pl. 42(illus.); Martyn Anglesea, 'The Lynn Brothers, architect and sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-90, 258(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 304(illus.),321;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 130(illus.).