Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 002 (PROVINCIAL BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 002 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1864-69
Nature: New bank in 'that peculiar adaptation of Venetian Gothic that this architect has made his own'. Completed by Turner & Williamson after WJB's death.. Builder: Henry Fulton. Stonecarving: Mr Barnes.
Refs: DB 7, 15 Jun 1865, 147; IB 9, 15 Mar,1 Dec 1867, 78,316; 10, 1 Sep 1868, 215(illus.); 11, 1 Jan 1869, 6; 30, 1 Sep 1888, 226; 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,pL.24,25; IALE, 32; Brett, 40, Pl.34; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 27(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 243(illus.),286; Paul Larmour, 'The eclectic style of W.J.Barre', Perspective, Mar-Apr 1984, 63

Name: TURNER & WILLIAMSON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 002 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1864-69
Nature: Turner & Williamson executive architects after death of W.J. Barre in 1867.
Refs: IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 6; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 243(illus.),286

Name: WATT, TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 002 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1915
Nature: Alts. Contractor: W.J. Campbell & Son, Ravenhill Rd.
Refs: IB 57, 6 Nov 1915, 485