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 |