Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architectural partnership of Pearson Bellamy and John Spence Hardy, of Lincoln, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 843, II, 158, . Their design for the Corn Exchange and Assembly Room in Dundalk, Co. Louth, was selected in a limited competition in 1858 but not built as it could not be erected to the proposed estimate.(1)



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(1) B 16, 1 May,26 Jun 1858, 291,442;  Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 21 (Jun 1858), 209;  Christine Casey, 'John Neville: Louth County Surveyor', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 21, no. 1 (1985), 29-30; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 314-5.


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Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, CROWE STREET, EXCHANGE & MARKET
Date: 1857;1858
Nature: Entrants in the first competition for designing same, 1857, and on short-list of 5 of the original entrants who were invited to prepare new plans for the building in a second, limited competition, 1858. Their design chosen, but John Murray eventually selected to be architect of building.
Refs: B 16, 1 May,26 Jun,28 Nov 1858, 291,442,784; DB 1, 1 Feb 1959, 19; Christine Casey, 'John Neville: Louth County Surveyor', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 21, no. 1 (1985), 29-30; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 314-5