Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: FARRELL, ISAAC
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1842
Nature: Superintending architect for erection of building designed by William Barnes. FS laid Nov 1842.
Refs: Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847), 'Annals of Dublin' (Nov 1842); M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st edition, 1952), 322

Name: BARNES, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1842-1845
Nature: New 5-bay, 3-storey bank premises with single-bay wings.  Superintending archt:  Isaac Farrell
Refs: Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847), 'Annals of Dublin' (Nov 1842); E.M. Cosgrave, Visitor's Guide to Dublin; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860, 322; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 413.


Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1856; 1862
Nature: Alterations, 1856; wins limited competition for designing extension, 1862
Refs: M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 424; DB 4, 15 May,1 Jun,15 Nov 1862, 125,141,288; 5, 1 Sep,1 Nov 1863, 148,182; B 20, 19 Jul 1862, 512

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1862
Nature: CG wins competition for remodelling. Work not carried out until 1889-90.
Refs: Drawings (on paper watermarked 1858) in IAA, Charles Geoghegan drawings, 80/32.I.1-2 (interior perspective repr. in D.J. Griffin & Simon Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 59 (no. 29); RHA 1863, nos. 460,471; DB 5, 15 Jun 1863, 101

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1888-1890
Nature: Completely remodelled according to plans of 1862. Builder: Richard Toole. Sculptural group by Pearse & Sharp, Gt Brunswick St. Painting by Mssrs. Dockrell completed by 26 Apr 1890. Dome painted pale blue. Sienna marble columns rest on porphyry bases and have statuary white capitals etched with gold. Pale green walls. Pilasters finished in Sienna and Galway green marbles.
Refs: MS list of plans in office of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3)); IB 30, 1 Apr 1888, 91; 31, 1 Jan,15 Aug 1889, 14,208; 32, 1 Apr,1 May 1890, 81,87(illus.),104;  Weekly Irish Times, 26 Apr 1890; for photograph of front see Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 53;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 413.

Name: PEARSE, JAMES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1889
Nature: Sculptural group (Eire go brágh, Hibernia &c.) in tympanum by Pearse with Edmund Sharp.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 413.

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1889
Nature: Sculpture  in tympanum, with James Pearse.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 413.

Name: FULLER & JERMYN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1924
Nature: Alterations to Board Room &c.. Builder: G. & T. Crampton. £1,310.
Refs: IAA 0075 and A09 (Dec 1924);  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 53(illus.)

Name: JERMYN, FREDERICK HERBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, NO. 034 (NATIONAL BANK)
Date: 1925
Nature: Extension of head office to Mssrs. Lucas's premises, Suffolk St.
Refs: IB 67, 18 Apr 1925, ?; 76, 1 Dec 1934, 1038