Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION

Name: BOYD, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Date: 1853
Nature: 'Mr Boyd of Belfast' placed second in competition for designing school, which was won by Isaac Farrell.
Refs: B 11, 22 Oct 1853, 654

Name: FARRELL, ISAAC
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Date: 1853;1857-60
Nature: Isaac Farrell wins competition for same. Plain 2-storey block. FS laid 4 Jun 1857. In progress, 1859, when cost expect to be about £4,000. Builder: Kilpatrick, Coleraine.
Refs: B 11, 20 Aug,22 Oct 1853, 533,654; 15, 20 Jun 1857, 355; IB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 22; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 24(illus.).25(no. 64) Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207; J. Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation 1609-1914 (Chichester, 1986), 392,Pl.315.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Date: 1876-1894
Nature: Robert Young consulted about extensions to school, 1876. Y & M receive intermediate payment of £20 for new building, Dec 1880. Addition of Classical, 4-storey over basement wing ('Old Boys' Wing'), opened 1894.
Refs: PRONI, Young & Mackenzie papers, D2194/2/1,2; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 25-26; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 119(illus.),341-2. 

Name: CRAIG, VINCENT
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Date: 1906
Nature: Entrance gateway in memory of Maud Houston. Builder: D.H. Christie, Coleraine.
Refs: W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 15(illus.),26; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 207.

Name: DALZELL, CROFTON G.
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, CASTLEROCK ROAD, COLERAINE ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION
Date: 1956-57
Nature: Extension: classrooms, dining room and assembly hall. £85,000.
Refs: IB 98, 21 Apr 1956, 377; 99, 15 Jun 1957, 473