Immaculata Special School, Shore Road, Whiteabbey, Co.Antrim

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.'