1871 – City Portrait Room, Carlisle Rd., Derry
Architect: William McElwee
Building for Hugh Kerr, photographer – finished in polychrome brick with Dungiven sandstone dressings. “The materials used are Belfast red pressed bricks,
1871 – Londonderry Academical Institution, Derry, Co. Derry
Architect: Turner & Williamson
Described in the Irish Builder as ‘notable for the almost total absence of any mere ornamental features’.The Londonderry Academical Institution was established by a body of influential local merchants,
1873 – St. Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry
Architect: J.J. McCarthy
Prior to its completion, The Dublin Builder remarked that “The Roman Catholic Cathedral, a spacious Gothic structure,
1875 – Railway Station, Bellarena, Co. Derry
Architect: John Lanyon
Bellarena railway station opened on 18 July 1853. It was closed for goods traffic from 4 January 1965.
1875 – Waterside Railway Station, Derry
Architect: John Lanyon
The Belfast & Northern Counties Railway commissioned an impressive dressed sandstone structure with Italianate tower, which opened in 1875.
1877 – Design for St. Patrick’s Church, Dungiven, Co. Derry
Architect: O’Neill & Byrne
A design for a new church, replacing that of 1819. A church was not built until 1883-4,
1877 – The Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, Derry
Architect: John G. Ferguson / Robinson & Davidson
The original part of the Hall was opened in 1877, and dedicated to the memory of the thirteen apprentice boys who closed the city gates in 1688.
1878 – St. James’s Church, Donagheady, Co. Derry
Architect: John Kennedy
In the late 19th century urgent repairs to the existing St. Michael’s Church which was constructed in 1790.
1879 – Lumen Christi College, Derry
Architect: Crome &Toye / Ralph H. Byrne
The central building was a casino or recreational building for the Bishop of Derry.
1879 – Fourth Presbyterian Church, Derry
Architect: Young & Mackenzie
A new church in Perpendicular Gothic, replacing an earlier church in Artillery St. Young &
