1866 – Former Belfast Banking Co., Bangor, Co. Down
Constructed for the Belfast Banking Co., but the moved to the former Market House in Bangor in the early 1950s. At this time the court,
Constructed for the Belfast Banking Co., but the moved to the former Market House in Bangor in the early 1950s. At this time the court,
A fine bank building on the end of a block allowing the architect to design three elevations and create an Italian palazzo.
The original core of the house was built in 1798 by Thomas Benjamin Adair, but heavily remodelled in 1866, when it was extended and crenellated.
In the Lombardo-Venetian style, and described as “a style particularly suitable for the site on which it is erected,
Large District lunatic asylum erected to a design by George Wilkinson (1814-90). It has a symmetrical plan comprising nine-bay two-storey central block centred on three-bay two-storey pedimented projecting breakfront with five-bay two-storey projecting “pavilions”
The chapel was designed in a Romanesque style to blend in with the existing convent buildings –
Originally constructed as a parish church, it was designed by Fr Jeremiah Ryan McAulay,
Imposingly solid bank branch for the Ulster Bank Company, and still in use by the same company today,
In 1814, while the building was still the Royal Exchange, the balustrade at the front collapsed killing a number of people in a crowd gathered outside to witness the punishment of a criminal.
The Munster Arcade was one of the principal department stores in Cork. Based on St. Patrick’s Street,