1859 – Design for Ulster Bank Headquarters, Belfast
Design entry for new headquarters for the Ulster Banking Company. Published in The Building News, January 21 1859.
Design entry for new headquarters for the Ulster Banking Company. Published in The Building News, January 21 1859.
Constructed as the headquarters of the Ulster Bank, and now a luxury hotel. Hamilton won the commission after an architectural competition in 1857 that attracted over 50 competitors from across the UK and Ireland.
Fine Italianate bank building by Belfast architect Thomas Jackson. Jackson was architect to the Ulster Bank,
The architect James Hamilton was responsible for the headquarters of the Ulster Bank in Belfast –
Fine limestone facade with carved riverine keystones to the windows on the ground floor. “We may repeat the architect is Mr.
Imposingly solid bank branch for the Ulster Bank Company, and still in use by the same company today,
Now part of the Merchant Hotel along with the former Ulster Bank headquarters next to it.
Substantial and solid bank building by Thomas Jackson of Belfast.
Corner three-bay three-storey over basement bank building with attic, built around 1875 but remodelled in 1940, losing a lot of its architectural detail at this time.
Unsuccessful competition entry to design new Ulster Bank for College Green. Placed second, and even more over-blown Victorian than the building constructed and eventually wrecked by the bank.