Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE

Name: DUCART, DAVIS
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1769
Nature: Designs for stone bridge and alternative wooden bridge prepared by DD in 1769. For Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry. Not executed.
Refs: Letter from Ducart, College Green, 13 Feb 1769, to Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry (photograph in IAA), quoted by P. Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 11

Name: ALTHEIR, JOHN CONRAD #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1771-72
Nature: JCA prepares design and model of proposed wooden bridge across Foyle for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry.
Refs: P.W. Nash & al., British Architectural Library…Early Printed Books 1478-1840 IV (2001), 1836

Name: MORELLI, COSIMO #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1776?
Nature: CM produces design for single span masonry bridge across river for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry.
Refs: B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd, Catalogue No. 45: Bridges, Docks and Harbours (1982), no. 94.

Name: PAINE, JAMES [2] #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1786
Nature: JP prepares designs for new stone bridge at request of the Irish Society and delivers same at the beginning of 1786. Design exhibited at RA, 1788 (no. 459) and engraved, CA 1790/91..
Refs: Inscription on engraving in possession of Rolf Loeber;  Graves, III, 42.

Name: MYLNE, ROBERT #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1787
Nature: Plans for same. Seen by Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1787.
Refs: Diaries of Robert Mylne, 31 Jul,25 Oct,18 Dec 1787, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Archive, Mylne family  papers, MyFam\13\3, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/ (last visited Jun 2009);  journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort 1787-88. 

Name: COX, LEMUEL #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1790-1791
Nature: New wooden bridge by Mssrs. Cox & Thompson. Model sent over 1788; parts and workmen brought from America; building begun on 3 May 1790. Opened 1791.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 23-27 Aug 1788, 25-27 May 1790, 30 Nov-2 Dec 1790, 2-4 Dec 1790; Belfast News Letter, 2-6 Sep 1791;  Seward, Topographia Hibernica (1795), ?; G. Vaughan Sampson, Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry (1802), 280(illus.),323-4; Dublin Penny Journal 2, 10 Aug 1833, 42; Robert Simpson, The Annals of Derry (1847), 246.

Name: MAY, CHARLES #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1854ca
Nature: CM prepares design for same. Not executed.
Refs: B 16, 2 Jan 1857, 16; APSD, L, 134.

Name: BARLOW, PETER WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1857
Nature: Competition entrant. (Competition announced Aug, 1856.) His design adopted after winner of competition, G.R. Long, had taken up post in Bengal, but not executed.
Refs: For the story of this competition and Barlow's design see B 14, 6 Sep 1856, 490; 15, 13,27 Jun,18 Jul,12,19 Sep 1857, 341,365,410,531,543; Min. Proc. Inst. CE 16 (1856-57), 476-8.

Name: LONG, GEORGE ROGERS
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1858
Nature: GRL winner of competition but his design not executed because he took up a job in Bengal.
Refs: B 16, 2 Jan 1858, 16

Name: HAWKSHAW, JOHN (SIR) #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BRIDGE OVER RIVER FOYLE
Date: 1859-3
Nature: New iron rail and road bridge. Cost ca £60,000, excluding approaches. Opened 25 Sep 1863. Contractor: Joseph Butler & Co, Stanningly, near Leeds. Work directed by Charles Pagett.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Apr,1 May 1860, 240,251; 4, 15 Apr 1862, 89; 5, 1 Oct 1863, 157,164; APSD, V, L, 134