Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, COLLEGE STREET, 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SCHOOLS

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, COLLEGE STREET, 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SCHOOLS
Date: 1858-59
Nature: New Italianate 6-bay, 2-storey school. Tenders invited, Jul 1858.  FS laid summer, 1858. Being roofed by end of following Oct.  Opened, Oct 1859.  Ground floor storey rendered in Portland cement; upper part of Belfast red & white bricks. Builder: Farr, Armagh. Stonecutters: McCullough & Morrow. Painter: Maxwell.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 2 Jul 1858,14,21 Oct 1859; B 16, 30 Oct 1858, 731; 17, 19 Nov 1859, 766;  Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), list of works; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 92;  ;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 120.