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Down Arts Centre

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169: 31: 664: 176: 248:, built in red brick by Dixon & Co. and completed in 1882. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Irish Street; it featured a prominent three-stage clock tower on the corner with Scotch Street; there was an arched doorway on the ground floor of the tower, a gothic window flanked by 298:
and Down District Council started in February 2011. The works, which were undertaken to a design by Kriterion Architects, included modernisation of the facilities as well as the creation of some additional creative space and were completed in June 2012.
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on the first floor and a clock face on the second floor. The façade facing Irish Street featured a series of narrow gothic windows on the ground floor and four wider gothic windows flanked by colonettes on the first floor. At roof level there was a
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and was completed in 1660. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly room on the first floor. After the building became dilapidated in the 1870s, the local
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and a central chimney. Internally, there were two halls, the larger hall, located on the first floor, accommodating 800 people and the smaller hall, on the ground floor, accommodating 200 people.
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was formed with offices in Stangford Road in 1974. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1983 but was restored in 1984: it was then converted for use as the Down Arts Centre in 1989 and the local
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The building continued to serve as the meeting place of Downpatrick Urban District Council for much of the 20th century, but ceased that role after the enlarged
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with the building as its meeting place in 1925. It was also used as an events venue and the singer,
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The first municipal building in Downpatrick was a market house which was a gift to the town from
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After significant population growth, the area became an
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Municipal Building in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
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Downpatrick
54°19′44″N 5°42′56″W / 54.3288°N 5.7156°W / 54.3288; -5.7156
William Batt
Gothic Revival style
Listed Building
Down Arts Centre is located in Northern Ireland
Downpatrick
County Down
listed building
Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass
member of parliament
John Mulholland
William Batt
Gothic Revival style
colonettes
modillioned
cornice
urban district
Gracie Fields
Second World War
Down District Council
rock band
Ash
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Tourism Northern Ireland
"Down Arts Centre (former Assembly rooms) (HB 18/19/001)"


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