"Modern Gothic church or institutional / ecclesiastical building much battlemented, turretted" is Magee College
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Where: Northern Ireland, Derry, United Kingdom
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A Gothic masterpiece to end July and welcome August! This looks very institutional today but may have been the height of architectural fashion in its day? Where is it and who built it?
Derangedlemur quickly answered the first question - it's Magee College (Ulster University) in Derry . The answer to the second question is that it's likely within a decade or so of the college's opening - in 1865....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883. Possibly after c.1865.
NLI Ref: STP_1944
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Derangedlemur quickly answered the first question - it's Magee College (Ulster University) in Derry . The answer to the second question is that it's likely within a decade or so of the college's opening - in 1865....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883. Possibly after c.1865.
NLI Ref: STP_1944
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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sharon.corbet
There's another view of it available.
derangedlemur
Hmm. I think we may be back to the all unidentified gothic things are Larne meme.
derangedlemur
It is the the Ulster University Magee campus in Derry. www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/campuses/magee
derangedlemur
Like most reputable institutions, they haven't let streetview in. This is the best they could do: www.google.ie/maps/@55.0074584,-7.322009,3a,27.5y,237.74h...
sharon.corbet
The now-standard Lawrence Collection versions one and two. (With added lions, but without the ladder).
sharon.corbet
The DIA seems to indicate 1865 for the building though it was 'approaching completion' in Dec 1859.
Niall McAuley
Opened in 1865 per wikipedia, and the DIA.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing - in 2012 via www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/10254504826/]
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The building on the left which isn't there looks late 19th century which might help with an 'earlier than' date - better seen in this photo - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dantheman44/26310600340/]Via www.flickr.com/photos/dantheman44/
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
"A bunker now hidden under the lush lawns of Magee College may have been one of three allied command centres during the Battle of the Atlantic. ... ... " www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-22751962
Vab2009
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I remember reading about that but had completely forgotten it!
irishlad031
Best city in the world.
Niall McAuley
This history page says In 1880, new impetus was given to the educational provision at Magee College by its incorporation into the newly-formed Royal University of Ireland. Red brick professional houses houses which 100 years later were to accommodate the work of the growing faculties, were added progessively to the site. So the red brick block beyond is not much help with dates.
irishlad031
Here's a live version today. www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/shares/u5K5P6
silverio10
Buena serie de fotos antiguas .
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] and all! Map, description, etc all updated. (I've also added this to the "catalogue update/correction" tag. Which covers the ever-growing list of images which were identified or corrected through the investigations on this stream. Aka, 'the good series of old photos').
Mark Lusby
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ unfortunately the WWII bunker are mostly removed during construction of new university buildings in the 1980s. But the myths survive.
Mark Lusby
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ the red brick professors’ houses were added in 1911
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/marklusby Thanks Mark