Portadown

1692 – Carrickblacker House, Portadown, Co. Armagh

The Blacker family, founded an estate at Carrick, on the Portadown–Gilford road. The land had been bought by Colonel Valentine Blacker from Sir Anthony Cope of Loughgall,

1858 – First Presbyterian Church, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: William J. Barre

The present building replaced an earlier building of 1822 and opened in August 1858. Extended and altered several times a gallery was added in 1875 and the transepts,

1860 – Thomas St. Methodist Church, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: John Boyd

A classical church with imposing tetrastyle Corinthian portico started in 1858 and opened in 1860. John Boyd was a Belfast-based architect who designed many churches and schools for the Methodists and Presbyterians in the late 1850s.

1862 – Railway Station, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: John MacNeill

John MacNeill’s masterpiece, a long polychromuc brick station with the stately air of a great house.

1898 – Former Belfast Bank, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Fine classically designed bank branch on the main thoroughfare. Once surrounded by buildings of equal merit, all now gone.

1905 – Carnegie Library, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: James Walby

Constructed during the years 1903-05, and designed by local architect James Walby who was formerly a student of William Batt based in Belfast.

1925 – Engine Roundhouse, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: F.A. Champion

One of two roundhouses to the same design on the Great Northern Railway system – the other at Clones still stands today.

1933 – Ulster Bank, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: Blackwood & Jury

Classically inspired and symmetrical bank branch of 1933, replacing an earlier building. Still in use today.

1960 – McCabe’s Bar, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: Ian Campbell

Interesting modern insertion into a traditional pub exterior. Also included a remodelling of the interior to include an off-license –

1976 – New Technical College, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: Shanks Leighton Kennedy Fitzgerald

Constructed in the new planned town of Craigavon in the 1970s, this is a good example of the brutalist architecture of the period.