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Competition design for Belfast City Hall

M132 Competition design for Belfast City Hall

Address: Donegall Square, Belfast BT1 5GS
Date: 1896
Authorship: Authorship category 4 (Office) (Office)
1896
July: Two-stage architectural competition announced for new Belfast City Hall, to cost £150,000. Three designs are to be selected for the second stage, and three premiums of £100 awarded. Alfred Waterhouse and J. C. Bretland, the Belfast City Surveyor, to act as assessors. 1
23 July: John Honeyman & Keppie pay one guinea to J. C. Bretland, evidently a deposit for the competition conditions. 2
25 October: Closing date for entries. 3
7 November: Waterhouse and Bretland are examining 51 entries. 4
11 December: Belfast Corporation confirms the assessors' shortlist: Malcolm Stark & Rowntree and James Miller, both of Glasgow; and a third, unnamed practice, presumably Thomas & Son (Alfred Brumwell Thomas) of London. 5
24 December: John Honeyman & Keppie's guinea deposit refunded. 6
1897
1 April: Thomas & Son of London named as overall winners of the competition. 7
1898
Elevations of John Honeyman & Keppie's unsuccessful entry exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. 8

Notes:

1: British Architect, 46, 17 July 1896, p. 38.

2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 37.

3: British Architect, 46, 17 July 1896, p. 38.

4: Builder, 71, 7 November 1896, p. 387.

5: Builder, 71, 5 December 1896, p. 470; 12 December 1896, pp. 491–2; 19 December 1896, p. 519.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 39.

7: Builder, 72, 3 April 1897, p. 320.

8: Glasgow Herald, 12 March 1898, p. 4.