Belfast's Architecture

Good morning! My name is Rui Rocha and my internship is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Since there is not that many places that my group and I want to visit here in Belfast, I will be talking about its architecture.
Ever since we got here, we have noticed how similar the houses look and the major use of brick for the building of these and pretty much the entire city. After some research I found out that this is quite an old occurrence. None of the buildings from Belfast’s first century as a market town on the river Farset survived. 
The only significant structures in those early years from 1613 would have been a castle established by Sir Arthur Chichester, and the parish church at the foot of High Street, where a ‘chapel of the ford’ had been erected by 1306, and where St George’s church now stands.
The earliest settlers are said to have ‘built good timber houses with chimneys after the fashion of the English palle’. This resulted in multiple houses and mansions burnt down. Having locally made brick, people started to realize it was the best solution, and it has been so far.

Rui Rocha