Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, GRACEHILL

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, GRACEHILL
Date: 1763p
Nature: Moravian settlement laid out from 1763. Included chapel, academy, single women's residence, widows' house, boarding school for girls, shop & inn.
Refs: Plans of settlement and individual buildings (shop, church meeting halls, sisters' house) 1763-1792, and topographical views, 1820, 1829, 1889, in Unitätsarchive der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität Herrnhut, Germany, see http://www.archiv.ebu.de/seiten/de/main_bestand.html  (2 of these plans, TS MP.169.12, TS Mp.170.3 exh. Gebaute Utopien, Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle, Germany, 2010, cat. nos. 5.32,5.33 (information from Dr Holger Zaunstöck, Halle);  J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 474;  Gilbert Camblin, The Town in Ulster (Belfast: Wm. Mullan & Son, 1951), 97.