Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon

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Belfast Castle, designed by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon

Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon, Civil Engineers and Architects was a 19th-century firm working mainly in Dublin and Belfast, and the leading architectural firm in Belfast during the 1860s. Its partners were Charles Lanyon, William Henry Lynn, and Charles' son .

Charles Lanyon was the head of the firm and its most famous architect. In 1854, he took Lynn, his former apprentice, into partnership. Their projects included the "Lombardic" Gothic-style Sinclair Seaman's Presbyterian Church in Belfast, and the Venetian Gothic banks at Newtownards, County Down, and Dungannon, County Tyrone.[1]

Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon was created when John Lanyon became junior partner in 1860. The partnership with Lynn was dissolved in 1872.

Projects[]

Designs for buildings and other projects by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon include:

Building Date[2] Location Style and remarks
Sion Mill 1853 Sion Mills, County Tyrone linen mill[citation needed]
Sandford Road Church of Ireland Ranelagh, Dublin first Dublin commission for the firm[3]
1861–1863 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin described in Lynn's obituary as "the best example extant of a modern Gothic church on a narrow street frontage"[4]
1862–1866 St Andrew Street, Dublin "an ambitious Gothic church on a cramped site"[5]
Chester Town Hall 1862–1869 Chester "Lynn, seemingly ignoring the request for an 'economical' building, incorporated numerous fancy Gothic features and utilised two types of local sandstone, pink and grey"[6]
Belfast Castle 1862–1870 Cavehill Country Park, Belfast Scottish Baronial style in sandstone, with "striking"[7] serpentine Italianate stairway; cost overruns and the family's depleted fortune delayed completion[8]
West Church 1863 Ballymoney Road, Ballymena black basalt in Decorated Gothic style; gutted by fire in 1926 and restored[9]
Charles Sheils Buildings 1868 Downpatrick, County Down series of almshouses with a bell tower[10]
Clarence Place Hall May Street, Belfast style has been compared to Chester Town Hall; photo[11]
Linen warehouse for Moore and Weinberg 1864 16–18 Donegall Square, North Belfast yellow-grey brick, with interior said to be "specially arranged for carrying on the linen business in all departments";[12] now Linen Hall Library[13]
St. Thomas Church 1869–1870 Belfast "one of the grandest and most fully finished examples of High Victorian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture"; white sandstone decorated with red sandstone bands and colored marble discs and colonnettes; a notice of the laying of the foundation stone defines the style as "Gothic, of the Early French period"[14][11][15]
Dowdstown House 1870 near Navan in Leinster described as using "many of the picturesque tricks" characteristic of the firm[16]
Portrush Town Hall 1870–1872 corner of Mark and Kerr, Portrush, County Antrim "immensely vigorous high-Victorian building" with a "hotch-potch of styles"; Scottish Baronial with crow-stepped gables and "witch's hat" turret; red brick with bands of cream and black brickwork[17]

Sources[]

  • Gillian McClelland and Diana Hadden, Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005), p. 193 online.
  • Antonia Brody, Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: L-Z (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001), pp. 15–16 and 89 online.
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  • Dictionary of Scottish Architects, Architect Biography Report, Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon

References[]

  1. ^ James Stevens Curl, A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, "Lanyon, Sir Charles."
  2. ^ A date range indicates time from initial competition or commission to completion or opening of the building
  3. ^ Sandford Road Church of Ireland, Ranelagh Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine; photo
  4. ^ "Obituary: W. H. Lynn". Irish builder and engineer. Dublin. 1915. quoted in "Dublin Unitarian Church | The St Stephen's Green Church". Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  5. ^ Christine Casey Dublin: the city within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 468f. online.
  6. ^ Although the competition eliciting designs had specified that the construction should be "substantial and economical rather than ornamental … and costing no more than £16,000," costs eventually ran to £50,000; see A Virtual Stroll around the Walls of Chester, The Northgate, Chester 2. See also photo showing details of sandstone patterning.
  7. ^ Margaret Greenwood et al., Ireland (Rough Guides, 2003, 7th ed.) p. 640 online.
  8. ^ Belfast Castle, History Archived 2007-04-07 at the Wayback Machine; photo Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine; see also John Vinycomb, "Historical and Descriptive Account of the City of Belfast," Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 2 (1892), pp. 325–327 online, with drawing of the castle.
  9. ^ Ballymena Churches Archived 2009-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Charles Sheils Buildings
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b History of St. Thomas' Belfast Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Proceedings (July 1888), p. 425 online, by which time the warehouse served J.N. Richardson Sons and Owden.
  13. ^ Philip V. Allingham, The Victorian Web, The Linen Hall Library, with photo; Linen Hall Library, History. Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "The Architect". 2. London. 6 November 1869: 232. Retrieved 27 December 2014. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ^ Robert Brendan McDowell, The Church of Ireland, 1869-1969 (Routledge, 1975), p. 77 online
  16. ^ Christine Casey and Alistair John Rowan, North Leinster: The Counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 78 online.
  17. ^ Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, North Antrim Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, calling the Information Office "an utterly repulsive and unsympathetic recent addition"; and Coleraine Borough Council, "Restoration of Portrush Town Hall," CBC News Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, with photos. In 2000, the council was refused permission to demolish the building. It was renovated 2004–2005.
  18. ^ Archiseek.
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