Belfast City

Garden of Remembrance

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Cenotaph and Garden of Remembrance. Belfast City Hall. "A semicircle of Egyptian-style Corinthian columns forming a backdrop to the Cenotaph, erected 1929 to designs by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas and located on the W side of the City Hall. The tall columns are paired and stand on mutual plinths, supporting a cornice decorated with roundels and dentils. At the focus of the arcade is a Lutyensesque monument in Portland stone consisting of an inscribed base over a plinth of three shallow steps, with a pair of pilasters front and back supporting an intricate pediment of rosettes, dentils and acanthus leaves. Intersecting with this on either side are lower pairs of pilasters surmounted by wreathes. An associated sunken paved area separated from the rest of the grounds by limestone balustrading forms part of its setting". Grade A. HB Ref No: HB26/50/001 D DSC_0226

Church House

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Church House (Presbyterian Church in Ireland). Built in 1905. Scottish Baronial style. In use by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church and as the Assembly Buildings Conference Centre. 2-10 Fisherwick Place. DSC_0231

St Peter's Cathedral

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St Peter's Cathedral. St Peter's Square. Symmetrical Gothic Revival church of 1866 built of Scrabo sandstone by Jeremiah McAuley, with prominent twin spires added to West front 1886 by Mortimer Thompson, and attached Parochial House of 1867 by John O’Neill. The plan is of a long nave with side aisles and apse, with a chapel at the NE corner and chapels added at the centre of each side aisle by PB Gregory in 1946. The twin spires are a prominent features in the townscape of the lower Falls area of Belfast. Pitched slate roofs with ornamental iron ridge cresting and ventilation lanterns, and leaded hips to apse; lean to roofs to side aisles, ornamented with filigree cross final to chancel, and stone cross finials to side chapels. Grade A. HB Ref No: HB26/33/003 A DSC_0232p1

Dunville Park Fountain

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Dunville Park fountain. Opened in 1892. "Ornamental terracotta fountain of eclectic style dating from 1892 to designs by A. E. Pearce and built by the firm Doulton & Co. of London, located in the centre of Dunville Park. The park is located to the corner of Grosvenor Road and Falls Road. Large three-tier fountain of buff Victorian terracotta located in the centre of a circular pool. The stem culminates in a small ornamented circular dish having a painted glazed ball finial. The first tier is supported by an octagonal panelled shaft with moulded top and scrolled coping. Four buttresses with moulded cornices support Renaissance column shaped painted glazed finials and are set in the second larger ornamented circular dish. The second tier is supported on the circular plan shaft with relief ornamentation and four projecting pilasters with painted glazed terracotta detailing. Large ornamented circular dish with lion heads to third tier, supported on a circular plan arcade with eight square-section panelled columns having elaborately carved capitals". B+. HB Ref No: HB26/32/003 DSC_0235p1

Garden of Remembrance

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Garden of Remembrance. The garden commemorates Civilians and IRA members killed during The Troubles. Established in 2001. Falls Road. DSC_0236

International Wall

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International Wall. Mural in Falls Road. DSC_0237

International Wall

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International Wall. Mural in Falls Road. DSC_0238

St. Comgalls Primary School

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St. Comgalls Primary School / Comgall’s Public Elementary School (1932). Closed in 1988. To be repurposed as multi-use community facility. Divis Street. "Largely two storey, symmetrical hipped roof school of 1932 by R.S. Wilshere, in the institutional neo early Georgian style typical of the period, arranged in a quadrangle with rustic brick and render façade with [?Portland] stone dressings. The north front is composed of a (double volume) assembly hall flanked by pyramidal roofed ‘pavilions’, while the remaining three sides comprise of plainer two storey classroom blocks". Grade B1. HB Ref No: HB26/33/004 DSC_0239p1

Protest Posters

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Protest posters in Divis Street, Belfast. DSC_0243

St Joseph's Church Sailortown

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St Joseph's Church Sailortown. Designed by TImothy Hevey and built in 1879-1880. French Gothic style. Closed in 2001. Prince's Dock Street. "Two storey French Gothic style RC Church of 1879-80 by Timothy Hevey, set within a terrace of warehouses on the SW side of Prince’s Dock Street. To the rear of the church (and facing on to Pilot Street) is the church rectory house. The church closed in February 2001 and is currently vacant. The symmetrical front elevation faces NE. It is in squared greywacke stone with dressed red sandstone as quoins architraves, courses, coping etc. and consists of a gable with a taller central gable which rises into a flying buttressed tower with stone spire". B1. HB Ref No: HB26/50/095 A DSC_0246

Coal Wharf

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Coal depot at Stormont Wharf. Port of Belfast. IMG_2581

Titanic's Dock

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Titanic's Dock And Pump House. Adaptive reuse as a Titanic maritime museum. Queens Road. "Long rectangular single storey pump house of c.1885-89, in typical late Victorian eclectic style with various gables and Romanesque arched openings, all in polychrome facing brick. The building, which has a deep basement level to house the pumps, (which are still used to pump out the adjacent Thompson Dock) is situated on Clarence Wharf, within the Harland & Wolff ship yard complex, to the W side of Queens Road, on the W side of Queens Island". Grade B1. HB Ref No: HB26/07/010 DSC_0012

HMS Caroline

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HMS Caroline. Royal Navy C-class light cruiser built at Birkenhead in 1914. The cruiser is the last survivor of the 1916 Battle of Jutland. The warship remained in commission to 2011. HMS Carline is now a museum ship undergoing restoration at Belfast. DSC_0016

Paddywagon Tours

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Paddywagon Tours Irizar motorcoach at Belfast City Hall. Paddywagon Tours operates green motorcoaches adorned with shamrocks and leprechauns. DSC_0230

Rotelle

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Rotelle con Coda di Manzo Brasata. Island Dining Room, Caribbean Princess. IMG_2585

Broadway Ballroom

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Caribbean Princess. Production Show: Broadway Ballroom. IMG_2597

Broadway Ballroom

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Caribbean Princess. Production Show: Broadway Ballroom. IMG_2605p1

Broadway Ballroom

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Caribbean Princess. Production Show: Broadway Ballroom. IMG_2610