Magee College, Derry
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| In collection: | The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
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[between ca. 1865-1883].
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| Notes: | Original description for this photograph was 'Modern Gothic church or institutional / ecclesiastical building much battlemented, turretted'. Research by our Flickr Commons users established the location as Magee College in Derry. The building is now part of Magee Campus at Ulster University. Original date range for this photograph was ca. 1860-1883. Research by our Flickr Commons users established the date range as ca. 1865-1883. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/36148036241 The Stereo Pairs Collection consists of negatives acquired and distributed by William Lawrence, but not created by the Lawrence firm. The images in the collection were created by Dublin photographers, James Simonton and Frederick Holland Mares. Physical description: 1 stereographic negative : glass ; 17 x 9.5 cm more |
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
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Lawrence Collection, Stereographic negatives, James Simonton, Frederick Holland Mares, John Fortune Lawrence, William Mervyn Lawrence, National Library of Ireland, Gothic, building, big house, mansion, Ireland, Magee College, Derry, Location identified, Ulster University, Campus, Ulster, Theological college, E.P. Gribbon, Probable catalogue correction, Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection, Stereo Pairs
Comments
derangedlemur
Hmm. I think we may be back to the all unidentified gothic things are Larne meme.
Posted: 31.07.2017
derangedlemur
It is the the Ulster University Magee campus in Derry.
www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/campuses/magee
Posted: 31.07.2017
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...
Posted: 31.07.2017
sharon.corbet
The DIA seems to indicate 1865 for the building though it was 'approaching completion' in Dec 1859.
Posted: 31.07.2017
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing - in 2012 via www.flickr.com/photos/105271614@N07/
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/105271614@N07/10254504826/]
Posted: 31.07.2017
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/
Posted: 31.07.2017
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
Posted: 31.07.2017
Vab2009
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I remember reading about that but had completely forgotten it!
Posted: 31.07.2017
irishlad031
Best city in the world.
Posted: 31.07.2017
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.
Posted: 31.07.2017
silverio10
Buena serie de fotos antiguas .
Posted: 31.07.2017
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] 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').
Posted: 01.08.2017
Mark Lusby
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/] unfortunately the WWII bunker are mostly removed during construction of new university buildings in the 1980s. But the myths survive.
Posted: 26.09.2021
Mark Lusby
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] the red brick professors’ houses were added in 1911
Posted: 26.09.2021
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/marklusby] Thanks Mark
Posted: 27.09.2021
