{"id":2674,"date":"2023-05-29T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2022-12-11T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T18:37:57","slug":"ocean-buildings-donegall-square-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/ocean-buildings-donegall-square-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Buildings, Donegall Square East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This office block was built for the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation by Young &amp; Mackenzie from 1899 to 1902.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is constructed in a perpendicular style in red Ballochmoyle sandstone.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> It is Gothic Revival styled building that C.E.B. Brett described as \u2018Scottish Baronial Tudor style\u2019.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" id=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> <a href=\"#_ftn4\" id=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is adorned by carvings of Edward VII, Queen Victoria&nbsp; and Queen Alexandra groan \u2018under the weight they have to carry\u2019. <a href=\"#_ftn5\" id=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The building has been occupied by architects: James A Hanna, 1920, John McGeagh 1940 and GP &amp; RH Bell and HA Patton in the 1950s.<a href=\"#_ftn6\" id=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast? See this and other structures on <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/architecture-tour\/\">Buildings &amp; Bricks<\/a> Tour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g01bd67\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g01bd67 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220710_172953-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Marcus Patton, Central Belfast, An Historical Gazetteer (Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society)p.116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Marcus Patton, Central Belfast, An Historical Gazetteer (Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society), p.116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" id=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonedatabase.com\/buildings.cfm?bk=2549\">http:\/\/www.stonedatabase.com\/buildings.cfm?bk=2549<\/a> Accessed 26.6.22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" id=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast, 1700-1914 Revised Edition&nbsp; (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), pp.70-71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" id=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> Marcus Patton, Central Belfast, An Historical Gazetteer (Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society)p.116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" id=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> Marcus Patton, Central Belfast, An Historical Gazetteer (Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society), p.116.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This office block was built for the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation by Young &amp; 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 as \u2018Scottish Baronial Tudor style\u2019.[3] [4] It is adorned by carvings of Edward VII, Queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220710_172310-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}