I was stocking up on some (expensive) nyjer seeds today at a shop in North Street, Belfast, when I encountered David Thompson, who recognized me from the Blog.
We had a good chin-wag for ages outside the former Assembly Rooms of 1769 (latterly a bank) at 2 Waring Street.
David urged me to have a look at a painting by J W Carey RUA, of St Anne's Parish Church, Belfast (top), being sold at auction next Wednesday in Ross's auction-house. St Anne's stood on the site of the Cathedral.
I ambled further along Donegall Street and stopped at St Patrick's Presbytery (above) at 199 Donegall Street, a Georgian building of ca 1820. This is a three-storey, red brick house adjacent to St Patrick's RC Church. It still has a splendidly gleaming brass-covered door with a fanlight over a lintel supported by Ionic columns.
The Presbytery was originally an episcopal palace, the first prelate being the Bishop of Down and Connor, William Crolly, in 1825.
193-195 Donegall Street was originally St Patrick's School for boys and girls, built in 1828. The stone plaques above double Tudor-style doors display the entrances to the Christian Brothers and National Schools.
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You may be interested in looking up the columns of St. George's Parish, if you're not familiar with the story already!
W.
Ballyscullion by any chance? :-)
Hi Tim, I attended that school in 1967 as it was then part of St. Mary's CBS. Other past pupils include Mr G. Adams MP and Fr Brendan Smith.
Best regards
KM
Aha! A certain Gerry Adams pulled pints at the estimable Duke of York off Donegall Street!
I'd actually forgotten which house they were from, Tim; I thought it was a never-to-be house commissioned by the Earl of Bristol.
W.
Yes, I think it was a half-finished palace of the Earl Bishop and the portico was acquired by St George's, wasn't it?
I'm sure that the venerable joke-smith Frank Carson went there too.
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