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working mainly in

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in Belfast during the 1860s. Its partners were

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William Henry Lynn William Henry Lynn (1829–1915) was an Ireland, Irish-born architect with a practice in Belfast and the north of England. He is noted for his Gothic Revival architecture, Ruskinian Venetian Gothic public buildings, which include History of Ches ...

, 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

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. Their projects included the "Lombardic" Gothic-style Sinclair Seaman's Presbyterian Church in Belfast, and the Venetian Gothic banks at

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. 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:

Sources

* Gillian McClelland and Diana Hadden, ''Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast'' (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005), p. 19
online.
* Antonia Brody, ''Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: L-Z'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001), pp. 15–16 and 8
online.
*Archiseek.
/ref> * Dictionary of Scottish Architects, Architect Biography Report
Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon

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