Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE WEST, NORTHERN BANK
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE WEST, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1900-03;1939 |
Nature: | New branch bank. Yorkshire stone and brick; basement of red Finland granite. Fan groining of Bath stone in vestibule. Rose window with signs of the Zodiac. Opened 16 Nov 1903.Contractor: Laverty & Sons. Carving by Purdy & Millard. Design claimed by James Reid Young in Who's Who in Architecture (1923). Alts. and adds., 1939. (Demolished, 1970ca.) |
Refs: | PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/36; IB 45, 3 Dec 1903, 3015; B 85, 28 Nov 1903, 556; Edwin D. Hill, The Northern Banking Company (1925), 45; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 121; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 67(illus.),91(illus.),256-7(illus.). |
Name: | PURDY & MILLARD * |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE WEST, NORTHERN BANK |
Date: | 1903a |
Nature: | Carving by Purdy & Millard. |
Refs: | Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 121 |