Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, DISTRICT MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWTOWNARDS, DISTRICT MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL
Date: 1857-1862
Nature: New model school on site given by Marquess of Londonderry. For Commissioners of National Education; 'uncommonly pretty front in the Jacobean style'. Opened July 1862.
Refs: 24th Report by National Education Commissioners (1857), xiv; 28th Report of Commissioners of Public Works, Ireland (1859), 17; DB 5, 1 Dec 1863, 197; F. O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of the Board of Public Works 1831-1923' in Public Works (1987), 21; Robin Wylie, Ulster Model Schools (UAHS, 1997), 23-27(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of North County Down (UAHS, 2002), 234(illus.)