Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Immaculata Special School,
Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Immaculata Special School,, Shore Road,, Whiteabbey,, Co.Antrim
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.67191, -5.89961
- Date of survey
- 16 October 2008
- HB reference
- HB21/07/008
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Detached multi-bay three-storey redbrick Gothic-style school building, built c.1890. Building now demolished.
The First Survey card states:
'A large 3 storey red brick institutional Gothic building, with slated gabled roofs, terracotta ridge tiles, blue brick string courses and voussoirs to pointed arch arcading of central 5 bays. Tower rises over main entrance: at 3rd floor level a statue in a canopied niche; at fourth floor of tower an open arcaded octagonal belfry topped with battlements. This an the battlemented parapet to the 2 store bay alongside is reminiscent of E & J Byrne's and John O'Shea's work at St Malachy's College, Falls Road, Belfast of 1900.
Interior - of no interest.
Chapel alongside: completely modernised inside by Felix Forte and Ray Carroll. Gothic Revivalist in red brick with concrete dressings. Stained glass by Mayer of Munich. Not good.
Built in 2890 as a n Industrial |School attached to St Brigid's Home for the Blind, Abbeyville. Oratory opened 1936. ( St Paul's Convent of Mercy Centenary Souvenir, 1954). Person in charge ahs no plans or other papers relating to the building .
"New Industrial Schools (Sacred Heart Orphanage) Abbeyville, Whiteabbey: Messrs E & J Byrne, architects." Belfast Newsletter Jan 1, 1897.'
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Detached multi-bay three-storey redbrick Gothic-style school building, built c.1890. Building now demolished.
General comments
This building is not worthy of a full Second Survey. A partial record has been taken as this building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed at that time.
Nearby in the register
- WoodbankHouseunder 1 mi
- Whiteabbey Railway StationNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Abbeylands Hotel,Residential Homeunder 1 mi
- Folly at WillowbrookDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.