Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL

Name: HARTE, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: 1886
Nature: Competition entrant?
Refs: IB 38, 15 Aug 1886, 238

Name: FERGUSON, JOHN GUY
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: 1887-1890
Nature: New Guildhall and Police Offices. Opened Jul 1890. (Destroyed by fire, 1908, and rebuilt.)
Refs: IB 29, 1 Feb 1887, 44; 32, 1 Aug 1890, 185;  Freeman's Journal, 27 Oct 1908;   Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 389

Name: WILLIAMSON, FRANCIS JOHN *#
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: 1898
Nature: Statue of Queen Victoria, unveiled, 1898.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 128.

Name: PINKERTON, WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: 1908-09
Nature: WEP appointed architect for reconstruction after fire, but, after great row, job was eventually given to M.A. Robinson
Refs: IB 50, 28 Nov 1908, 737; 51, 3 Apr 1909, 210; Buildng News 95, 18 Dec 1908, 891; B 96, 3 Apr 1909, 418

Name: ROBINSON, MATTHEW ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: 1909-1912
Nature: Rebuilding after destruction by fire on Easter Day 1908. Opened 10 Jan 1912. Builder: Henry Laverty & Sons, Belfast.
Refs: IB 50, 31 Oct 1908, 671; 51, 4 Sep,2 Oct,11 Dec 1909, 565,629,787; 52, 5 Mar,2 Sep 1910, 150,550,554(illus.); 53, 23 Dec 1911, 843; 54, 14 Sep 1912, (illus. in suppl.); IA & C 1, 4 Feb 1911, 30; W.S. Ferguson, A.J. Rowan, J.J. Tracey, Historic Buildingsā€¦in and near the City of Derry (1970), 35(no. 74)

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, SHIPQUAY PLACE, GUILDHALL
Date: ?
Nature: Statue of Queen Victoria, by Thomas Farrell.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 339