1840 – Glasshouse, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Co. Antrim
As originally built, it was to the designs of Charles Lanyon in 1840. Turner & Walker were the contractors for first stage.
As originally built, it was to the designs of Charles Lanyon in 1840. Turner & Walker were the contractors for first stage.
Constructed as the Victoria Music Hall, later the Church of Ireland YMCA in 1882, and later becoming a Gospel Hall for the Plymouth Brethern around 1916.
Clotworthy Arts Centre was built in the 1840s as a coach house and stables for Antrim Castle. It was once the centre of a thriving farm and consists of an enclosed central courtyard flanked by two wings built in a neo-Tudor style.
Originally designed by John Frazer with Charles Lanyon between 1841 and 1843 replacing an old 21-arch bridge.
Originally Saint Malachy’s was intended to be the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Down and Connor and was to seat 7,000 worshippers but in the time when the Great Famine took hold in Ireland it was decided that the funds would be better spent elsewhere to alleviate the suffering of many.
A school for the education of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, designed by Charles Lanyon in an Elizabethan style.
Corner of Castle Place and Donegall Place – a three storey stucco building with round headed windows. Also known as Gibsons Corner,
Unbuilt design proposal for County Court House by Charles Lanyon. With its curved screen walls, it is extremely reminiscent of the former Parliament Building in Dublin.
The Ulster Railway opened Belfast’s first railway terminus in 1839, and as such was called just “Belfast”
The station was opened in 1848 as part of the Belfast & Ballymena Railway, which would ultimately become part of the Northern Counties Committee group of lines owned by the LMS.
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