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Late Nineteenth Century

St Eugene’s Cathedral  reflects  a developing  confidence in the Catholic Community in the second half of the  century. Commenced in 1851, and helped with much financial support from  emigrants in America,  it was completed apart from its spire by 1873. This, and the more richly  decorated pinnacles, was completed  in 1903. The architect for the main work  was JJ McCarthy. The spire was  designed jointly by G. Ashlin of Dublin and E. J. Toye of Derry.  The Cathedral was consecrated  in 1936 when the debt  for the works had been  cleared. 
  
In the later half of  the century the standard white washed vernacular houses began to be replaced  in the prosperous lowland areas by more formal buildings.  A remaining thatched house near Claudy  illustrates this development very  well. An older 'direct entry' house has a two  story formal house as an  extension.   The gable of the new  house has projecting stones at high level-  presumably to accommodate a taller  replacement at a future date for the  thatched portion. 


At the end of the  century the  Queen Anne Style became popular. The best example in the city is  the Verbal  Arts Centre on the Walls with its very typical brick pilasters and  casement  windows and tall chimneys. These all hark back to the buildings  which must have  been well represented within the walls before they were swept  away by the  Georgian period. The Victorian revival of the style often used  terracotta replacing decorative stone details and this is the case here.


   

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