Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon
Introduction Belfast Castle, designed by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon'''Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon, Civil Engineers and Architects''' was a 19th-century firm working mainly in Dublin and Belfast, and the leading architectural firm in Belfast during the 1860s. Its partners were Charles Lanyon, William Henry Lynn, and Charles' son John Lanyon.Charles Lanyon was the head of the firm and its most famous architect. In 1854, he took Lynn, his former apprentice, into partnership. Their projects included the "Lombardic" Gothic-style Sinclair Seaman's Presbyterian Church in Belfast, and the Venetian Gothic banks at Newtownards, County Down, and Dungannon, County Tyrone.Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon was created when John Lanyon became junior partner in 1860.The partnership with Lynn was dissolved in 1872.
Projects Designs for buildings and other projects by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon include:  Building Date  Location  Style and remarks Sion Mill  1853 Sion Mills, County Tyrone linen mill Sandford Road Church of Ireland Ranelagh, Dublin first Dublin commission for the firm Unitarian Church 1861–1863 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin described in Lynn's obituary as "the best example extant of a modern Gothic church on a narrow street frontage" St. Andrew's Church 1862–1866 St Andrew Street, Dublin "an ambitious Gothic church on a cramped site" Chester Town Hall 1862–1869 Chester "Lynn, seemingly ignoring the request for an 'economical' building, incorporated numerous fancy Gothic features and utilised two types of local sandstone, pink and grey" Belfast Castle 1862–1870 Cavehill Country Park, Belfast Scottish Baronial style in sandstone, with "striking" serpentine Italianate stairway; cost overruns and the family's depleted fortune delayed completion West Church 1863 Ballymoney Road, Ballymena black basalt in Decorated Gothic style; gutted by fire in 1926 and restored Charles Sheils Buildings 1868 Downpatrick, County Down series of almshouses with a bell tower Clarence Place Hall May Street, Belfast style has been compared to Chester Town Hall;  photo Linen warehouse for Moore and Weinberg 1864 16–18 Donegall Square, North Belfast yellow-grey brick, with interior said to be "specially arranged for carrying on the linen business in all departments"; now Linen Hall Library St. Thomas Church 1869–1870 Belfast "one of the grandest and most fully finished examples of High Victorian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture"; white sandstone decorated with red sandstone bands and colored marble discs and colonnettes; a notice of the laying of the foundation stone defines the style as "Gothic, of the Early French period" Dowdstown House 1870 near Navan in Leinster described as using "many of the picturesque tricks" characteristic of the firm Portrush Town Hall 1870–1872 corner of Mark and Kerr, Portrush, County Antrim  "immensely vigorous high-Victorian building" with a "hotch-potch of styles"; Scottish Baronial with crow-stepped gables and "witch's hat" turret; red brick with bands of cream and black brickwork
Sources * Gillian McClelland and Diana Hadden, ''Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast'' (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005), p. 193  online. * Antonia Brody, ''Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: L-Z'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001), pp. 15–16 and 89  online. ** Dictionary of Scottish Architects, Architect Biography Report,  Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon
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