Holywood Old School Preservation Trust

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Holywood Old School Preservation Trust

• Educational Heritage Worksheet

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Introduction
Holywood Old School Preservation Trust was formed
to restore the Old School on Church Road and to
make it available as a meeting place for a
variety of group activities. The Old School is
however just one of the interesting surviving
buildings situated in Holywood today. The
buildings and constructions that make up the
Holywood time-line, as covered in this worksheet,
include sites from Holywoods early Christian
past and the Norman occupation, from the
Plantation period and the late eighteenth century
growth, from the further expansion in Victorian
times after the arrival of the railway, and from
different periods in the twentieth
century. Heritage, however, does not just
involve caring for the good bits of the past,
that are still around, it also involves taking
the trouble to erect new buildings which will
provide lasting examples of architecture
today. We hope you enjoy learning about the
buildings in your town.
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Holywood Heritage Time-line
Holywood Old School Preservation Trust has
produced a series of illustrations that form a
heritage time-line and we are going to have a
look at the buildings and constructions from
various time periods. We have looked at
buildings from six different time periods,
Norman, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian, Pre-war and
Post War. Remember have fun finding the answers
to the following questions, good luck.
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Norman Period Holywood Motte (late 1100s)
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Norman Period Old Priory Church (late 1100s)
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Stuart Period Maypole (1620)
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Georgian Period Windmill (mid 1700s)
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Georgian Period Mill Cottages (late1700s)
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Georgian Period Shore Road Terrace (1830)
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Victorian Period New Parish Church (1844)
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Victorian Period Holywood Old School (1845)
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Victorian Period Non Subscribing Presbyterian
Church (1849)
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Victorian Period Sullivan Building (1862)
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Victorian Period Orange Hall (1882)
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Pre War 9 Victoria Road (1934)
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Post War Queens Hall (1953)
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Post War St Colmcilles Church (1995)
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Post War St Colmcilles Church (1995)