William Pirrie was the Managing Director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard and also served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1896 and 1898. He was instrumental in the conception of Olympic class liners built at Harland and Wolff. The…
The Palm House is a greenhouse located in Botanic Gardens. It is one of the oldest examples of curvilinear iron and glass structures still surviving in the world. It was built by Richard Turner of Dublin in 1839 to a…
Designed by W.H Lynn in Venetian Gothic style, it was built between 1867 and 1869.[1] C.E.B. Brett believed it was Lynn’s ‘most successful achievement’ resembling a massive merchant’s palazzo.[2] Oscar Wilde thought it was the most beautiful building in Belfast…
Operation Banner Memorial, Belfast City Hall Gardens This small sculptural bench was placed here in memory of the service men and women who served as part of Operation Banner. This was the operational name for the British Armed Forces’ deployment…
It was built for the Northern Bank between 1884-85.[1] Designed by John Lanyon, son of the famous Charles, Belfast architecture commentator C.E.B. Brett described the work as ‘perhaps John Lanyon’s most successful work’.[2] The structure is of Italianate design, featuring…
Out yesterday on a Bricks&Buildings tour looking at the religious, municipal and commercial architecture of the Belfast’s city centre. Walk was delivered as part of the QUB Open Learning Spring Term (OLE3147 – Five Walks Through Belfast’s History). Lovely weather!
The SSE Arena, Belfast is owned by the Odyssey Trust Company. It has a capacity of 10,800, and since its opening in 2000 seen over 2,000 performances and that were attended by around 9m people.[1] The display area is a…
This office block was built for the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation by Young & Mackenzie from 1899 to 1902.[1] It is constructed in a perpendicular style in red Ballochmoyle sandstone.[2] It is Gothic Revival styled building that C.E.B. Brett described…
Murray, Sons and Company Ltd began trading in Belfast in 1810, and became a limited company in 1884. By 1921, it shared most of the Belfast manufacture of tobacco, cigarettes and snuff with Gallaher Limited, who had moved to Belfast…
The Church was purpose built for a Moravian congregation in 1871, fashioned in the Gothic style.[1] The Moravian Church is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century. Moravia is…
