Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Scottish architect and town planner, for whom see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 68-69, and Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), II, 162. As an assistant to PATRICK GEDDES PATRICK GEDDES , whose daughter Norah he married in 1915, Mears worked on the town planning exhibition in Dublin in 1911 and on plans for the Marino estate in 1914. After the First World War he was called upon by FREDERICK PURSER GRIFFITH  FREDERICK PURSER GRIFFITH to design a housing development for ex-servicemen at Killester, Dublin, which was begun by the Board of Works in 1920. He was involved in other housing schemes for Dublin during the 1920s, and exhibited a design for a national cathedral at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1923.

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References

All information in this entry is from F.H.A. Aalen, 'Homes for Irish heroes: housing under the Irish Land (Provision for Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1919, and the Irish Sailors' and Soldiers' Land Trust', Town Planning Review 59, no. 3, July 1988, 312-317(illus.).


3 work entries listed in chronological order for MEARS, FRANK CHARLES (SIR) #


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILLESTER, HOUSING SCHEME
Date: 1920
Nature: Housing scheme of 247 houses for ex-servicemen, for Board of Public Works
Refs: www.scottisharchitects.org.uk, citing RIBA nomination papers in RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum; F.H.A. Aalen, 'Homes for Irish heroes: housing under the Irish Land (Provision for Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1919, and the Irish Sailors' and Soldiers' Land Trust', Town Planning Review 59, no. 3, July 1988, 312-317(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ?, CATHEDRAL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1923
Nature: Design for a national cathedral exh. Royal Scottish Academy, 1923.
Refs: www.scottish architects.org.uk, citing RSA 1923, no. 534

Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL
Date: 1938
Nature: Mssrs. Mears, Murphy and Ryan appointed by Corporation to make survey and prepare town plan.
Refs: IB 80, 1 Oct 1938, 840