1870 – Backhouse & Co., Bank, Sunderland
Architect: G.G. Hoskins
Backhouse’s Bank merged in 1896 with Gurney’s Bank of Norwich and Barclays of London to form what is now Barclays Bank.
1870 – Bank of Ireland (formerly Goodbody’s), Tullamore, Co. Offaly
A fine three storey warehouse in Ruskinian Gothic, which has been restored and amalgamated into the adjacent Bank of Ireland premises.
1870 – Bank of Ireland, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Architect: Millar & Symes
Attractive bank branch with symmetrical front elevation,
1870 – Bank of Ireland, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Architect: Sandham Symes
Still in use today, although a more recent banking hall has been constructed in front of the original house.
1870 – Battersea Chapel, London
Architect: E.C. Robins
As published in The Building News,
1870 – Belfast Castle, Co. Antrim
Architect: John Lanyon, Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon
The Chichesters (later the Donegalls) lived in England as absentee landlords but came to live at Ormeau at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
1870 – Berkshire, Reading and Newbury Lunatic Asylum
Architect: C.H. Howell
From The Builder, April 2, 1870: THE subject of the accompanying illustration is the newly erected asylum for the reception of the insane poor of the county of Berks and boroughs of Reading and Newbury.
1870 – Bishops House, Newark, New Jersey
Architects: Goldie & Child
Published in The Building News,
1870 – Boland’s Bakery, 133-136 Capel Street, Dublin
Architect: Charles Geoghegan
Designed as a bakery for Patrick Boland and incorporating an earlier Presbyterian church in Mary’s Abbey (a laneway to the rear).
1870 – Burns Hotel, Shore Rd., Holywood, Co. Down
Architect: Timothy Hevey
New railway hotel premises from Mr.
