Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALBERT BRIDGE (OLD)

Name: FRASER, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALBERT BRIDGE (OLD)
Date: 1831-1836
Nature: New bridge (replacing one of 1814? See APSD.B, 56). JF associated with construction. Grant of £3,000 from Commissioners of Public Works.
Refs: 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1836), 11; IB 16, 1 Aug 1874, 218; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 270.

Name: SMITH, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ALBERT BRIDGE (OLD)
Date: 1834
Nature: WS said to have been architect for new 5-arch stone bridge.  Contractor: William Stevenson.  2 central arches collapsed on evening of 15 Sep 1886.
Refs: Irish Times, 16 Sep 1886.