Malone Maigh Lón
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Danesfort House, Belfast
Made by Gerry Ward
Designed 1864 by William Barre for Samuel Barbour, a linen thread manufacturer. Originally known as Clanwilliam House but the name was changed in the 1870s. One of Barre's best works, built of fine ashlar stonework, Danesfort parades features of Italian, French and English styles all rolled into one richly moulded and sculpturesque pile. The most imposing element in the composition is the mansard-roofed square tower over the porte cochère or carriage porch. It originally contained 'retiring rooms'. There is much round-arcading of windows and luxuriant carving to capitals in Early Gothic manner. A highly ornamental feature of the design is the multi-circled pierced and interlaced patterning, of essentially Italian origin, that decorates the balconettes, parapets and friezes, but the most curious detail is the Gothic niche-like treatment of a chamfered corner next to the porch. Inside, there is a good arcaded and balustraded stairway in the entrance hall with some fine rooms grouped around it. In all the rather Italianate sumptuousness of the interiors, replete with marble fireplaces, elaborate gilt frames to full-height mirrors, arcaded walls, and plasterwork cornices, one minor detail to note is the ceiling rose with a radial arrangement of short stumpy foliated columns which reveals Barre as essentially a High Victorian Goth. Danesfort was built on what had previously been known as 'Pleasure-House Hill', apparently on the site of an old rath or fort. During the progress of excavating the ground for the building several cinerary urns and some sixteen or so celts or hatchets were found. They were subsequently mounted and exhibited in cabinets in the library by the first owner of the house. When Samuel Barbour died in 1878 Danesfort was left to his widow in trust for their daughter. She married Charles Duffin in 1883 and the property remained in the Duffin name until the 1940s when it was bought by Gallaher Ltd who then sold it to the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland for use as an administrative centre. After some years of neglect and subsequent decay, following the building of the large office block nearby, a major and timely restoration of Danesfort was undertaken by Northern Ireland Electricity in 1984-87, and it is greatly to their credit that it now stands secure for the future as one of the best High Victorian houses in Ireland. Recently acquired by the US Government and is now the American Consulate in Northern Ireland.
St John the Evangelist, Malone
Made by Gary McMurray
Diocese of Connor
Danesfort House, Belfast
Made by Gerry Ward
Danesfort House, Belfast
Made by Gerry Ward
Danesfort House, Belfast
Made by Gerry Ward
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