1857

1857 – Oldmill Reformatory School for Boys, Aberdeen, Scotland

Oldmill was an Aberdeen reformatory set up in 1857 and occupied by about 150 boys. Closed in 1898.

1857 – Sinclair Seamen’s Church, Belfast, Co. Antrim

Constructed between 1856 and 1857 in memory of John Sinclair in a Venetian style. A unique interior shipyard workers,

1857 – St. Catherine’s Church, Meath Street, Dublin

Dedicated in 1858 and is the second church to occupy the same site. The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 30 June 1852.

1857 – St. Clement’s Anglican Church, Manitoba

The official church for employees of the Hudson’s Bay Company who were stationed at the nearby Lower Fort Garry, St Clements was started in 1857 but the short bell tower was not completed until 1928.

1857 – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny

Architect: William Deane Butler

Kilkenny has two cathedrals, the older St Canice’s belonging to the Church of Ireland and St Mary’s for the catholic faith.

1857 – Thomas Moore Statue, College St., Dublin

Sculptor: Christopher Moore

At the junction of College Street and Westmoreland Street, once stranded on a traffic island with a disused public toilet (now removed) is this statue to the Irish bard Thomas Moore.

1857 – Trinity College Museum, Dublin

Architect: Deane & Woodward

The winning design of a competition to design a museum and lecture hall complex for Trinity in 1852,

1857 – Unsuccessful Designs for Foreign & War Office, London

Architect: George Edmund Street / Coe & Hofland / Banks & Barry / Buxton & Habershon / Pritchard & Seddon / Henry Garling / Cuthbert Brodrick / John Philpott Jones

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office building originally provided premises for four separate government departments: the Foreign Office,

1859 – Natural History Museum, Merrion Square, Dublin

Architect: Frederick Clarendon

Although externally well designed in an austere granite classicism between 1856-57 – it is the interior of the Natural History Museum which deserves the most attention.