Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, DIAMOND, TOWN HALL

Name: GORDON, STEWART
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, DIAMOND, TOWN HALL
Date: 1857-59
Nature: Reconstruction, designed by Thomas Turner. SG supervised work and acted as consultant architect.
Refs: J. Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation 1609-1914 (Chichester, 1986), 420-22,pl.363

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, DIAMOND, TOWN HALL
Date: 1857-59
Nature: New town hall. FS laid, 21 Jul 1857. 'just completed' Mar 1859. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey, Belfast. Final cost: £4,146.19s.10½ instead of estimated £3,021.
Refs: B 15, 28 Feb,1,8 Aug 1857, 123,443,449; DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33; W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 8(illus.),9; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 84; H. Dixon & A. Rowan, 'The architecture of Thomas Turner', Country Life 153, 24 May 1973, 1495(illus.); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 206-7,Pl.99

Name: GIVEN, WILLIAM JAMES
Building: CO. DERRY, COLERAINE, DIAMOND, TOWN HALL
Date: 1902
Nature: Addition of extra bay and new entrance at East end.
Refs: W.D. Girvan, List of Historic Buildings…in Coleraine and Portstewart (UAHS, 1972), 9 (no. 1); James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1914 (1986), 420