Thomas Duff | |
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![]() St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh | |
Born | 1792 Newry, County Down, Kingdom of Ireland |
Died | 1848 Newry, County Down, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | St. Patricks Cathedral, Armagh Newry Cathedral |
Thomas John Duff (1792–1848)[1] was an Irish architect from Newry, County Down. Duff was the principal architect of a number of Roman Catholic churches and cathedrals in the northeast of Ireland.
His work included three churches dedicated to St.Patrick: St. Patrick's Church, Dundalk (modelled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge);[2] Cathedral Church of St. Patrick and St. Colman, Newry,[3] and Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh city.[4] Duff also designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, the city's first National School[5] and believed to be the last remaining Gothic Revival building in Belfast[6] and the museum of the Belfast Natural History Society