Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL

Name: MCCURDY & MITCHELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1880-82
Nature: New school in Queen Anne style erected from plans by McC & M. Tenders invited, Dec 1879. FS laid 24 Jun 1880 by Duke of Abercorn. Estimated cost: £12,000. Brought 'almost to completion' by contractor: Gahan & Son, who went bankrupt in process. Completed under supervision of William Bolger, clerk of works. Design claimed by Mitchell in Cosgrave. Tenders invited 'for Ironwork, Gates and Railings (about 200 yards), Sep 1880.  Not officially opened until 9 Nov 1882


Refs: Perspective view in Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street;  Irish Times, 18 Dec 1879,.27 Sep 1880,10 Nov 1882;  IB 22, 15 Feb,1 Jul, 56,182; 24, 1 Sep,15 Nov 1882, 250,337; 52, 2 Apr 1910, 199(illus.); E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 268; Obituary of Mitchell by R.M. Butler in IB 52, 19 Mar 1910, 173

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1888
Nature: Alts. & adds to infirmary. Builder: S.H. Bolton.
Refs: IAA, PKS B14/20, A07, pp.142,253 (May 1888)

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1892
Nature: Infirmary. Builder: Bolton. Cost: £3,195.
Refs: IAA, PKS A07 (Jul 1892)

Name: BOLTON, SAMUEL HENRY [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1892
Nature: Infirmary. Archt: Wm. Mitchell
Refs: IAA, PKS A07 (Jul 1892)

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1892-93; 1894-1895
Nature: Alts & adds., 1892-3. New assembly  hall, 1895 (tenders invited, Jan 1894. Contractor: S.H. Bolton & Sons.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0666, 0722, B15/63 (missing), B15/77 (missing), B16/29, B23/17, A07, 253 (Jan 1894-Apr 1895);  Irish Times, 6,8 Jan 1894;  design for assembly hall exh. RHA 1896, no. 427; IB 52, 2 Apr 1910, 199

Name: KAYE-PARRY & ROSS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1911-12;1914
Nature: Gymnasium hall, 1912 (Builder: J. & R. Thompson); further adds. 1914 (Builder: Wm. Beckett & Son).
Refs: IB 53, 19 Aug 1911, 558; 54, 3 Feb 1912, 78; 56, 24 Oct 1914, 601

Name: HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL
Date: 1918p
Nature: First World War memorial window, depicting Henry V, flanked by Faith and Charity. (Later moved to stair hall of Freemasons' Hall, Molesworth Street.)
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 490.