This project was to restore the property to be used as an exhibition and interpretive centre for the Armagh Public Library and St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral.

It was designed to provide access and display space for the collections – archival records, music, coins and prints. Proposed works included restoring the original elements of the building, including the reinstatement of the stone galleries, and the creation of a terrace overlooking the rear garden.

The building was to be used to exhibit selections of major collections from the library. This included a coin collection featuring 300 Roman coins that the Ulster Museum described as “of remarkable quality” and “possibly the finest group of such pieces in Ireland.” It also included a collection of prints that the Ulster Museum described as “an intact late Georgian collection, which is rare in its coherence.”