Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1821
Nature: Rebuilding of schools founded in 1705. Schoolhouse consists of 2 large schoolrooms with apartments for male and female teachers. 90 x 50ft. Residence of John Claudius Beresford, Irish Society's agent, 'forms the other front of the house'.
Refs: A. Day, P. McWilliams & L. English, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 33, 57

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1834
Nature: Porch and gutters to be added to girls' school.
Refs: Report of a visit to the estates of the Honorable the Irish Society in Londonderry and Coleraine in the year 1834, ?

Name: TURNER & WILLIAMSON
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1866-69
Nature: Remodelling and enlargement. By Turner & Williamson (but actually by RW). Tenders sought, Apr 1867. Opened Autumn 1869. Cost: £5,000. Contractor: Robert Ferguson & Son.
Refs: DB 8, 15 Sep 1866, 229; IB 9, 15 Apr 1867, 102; 11, 15 Oct 1869, 231; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 208; James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1914 (1986), 422,Pl.364

Name: GIVEN, W. & M.
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1914
Nature: Improvements.
Refs: IB 56, 31 Jan 1914, 76

Name: GIVEN, W. & M.
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1922
Nature: Additional classroom.
Refs: IB 64, 9 Sep 1922, 618

Name: GIVEN, W. & M.
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, BERESFORD PLACE, IRISH SOCIETY SCHOOLS
Date: 1933-35
Nature: Extension. Completion of work supervised after death of Maxwell Given by Malcolm McQuigg. Contractors: William Currie & Sons, Coleraine. Opened 1935.
Refs: IB 75, 29 Jul 1933, 655; 77, 27 Jul 1935, 646