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William Henry Lynn

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155:, though correspondence continued over three decades, concerning the plans but also ranging over a projected new house at Grey Point; a seaside resort at Helen's Bay; a water tank to be sited below Helen's Tower; and projects in Canada, where Lord Dufferin was Governor General. A letter from Lynn to Lord Dufferin in March 1869 referring to alterations then under way at Clandeboye, some interior alterations of the time were designed by Lynn, perhaps in the dining-room, drawing-room, library and gallery. 22: 162:, the Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church, Carlisle Circus, Belfast (1872–5; now semi-derelict and being restored) and the Ruskinian "Venetian" Gothic Belfast Bank on College Green, Dublin (1892), now housing a grand pub. Among his other later public commissions in Belfast were the 152: 127:
was "justly described as the best example extant of a modern Gothic church on a narrow street frontage, the treatment being quite original and altogether admirable". In Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, they designed the
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Church of St Patrick (1865–8) and, in England, the Chester Town Hall, following a public competition (1863–9), should be mentioned. In the 1860s a second
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in North Lancashire (1882–87), as well as the extension (1891–95) to the Italianate Harbour Office, Belfast.
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For their first joint projects (1855), Lynn and the elder Lanyon produced bank buildings at
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in Belfast; under Lanyon he prepared the drawings for the original building housing
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was designed with Charles Lanyon for 1st Lord O'Neill (burned 1922), and in 1870
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Its acknowledged model, but in very general terms, was the medieval Cloth Hall,
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commercial structures, in Dublin, the Church of St Andrew (1860) and the
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Among Lynn's most prominent designs working on his own were his work at
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Lord and Lady Dufferin, Peter Rankin, Gavin Stamp and William Maguire,
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A project that was never realised was the remodelling and expansion of
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Irish
architect
Belfast
Ruskinian Venetian Gothic
Chester Town Hall
Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall
articled
Charles Lanyon
Queens College, Belfast
partnership
John Lanyon
incorporated
Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon
dissolved
Newtownards
Dungannon
Venetian Gothic
John Ruskin
Belfast
Italianate
Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green
Romanesque Revival
Shane's Castle
Castle Leslie
Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet
Clandeboye House
Lord Dufferin and Claneboye
Queen's University, Belfast
Central Library

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