Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 097 (PROVINCIAL BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 097 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1862-65
Nature: New bank premises in Palladian style, with frontage of 163 ft. Corinthian order. Local limestone with chief carved work in Portland stone. Carved semi-circular panels in parapet depict Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Shipping. Shields over windows bear arms of principal cities where Provincial Banking Co,. has banks. Expected to cost £15,000. Contractor: Alexander Deane, Cork, or William Brash. Clerk of Works: Mr Pierce.
Refs: IAA, PKS L1 (p.291,294-298,303,306); B 22, 28 May 1864, 398; DB 4, 15 May 1862, 127; 7, 1 Nov 1865, 261; Cork Examiner, 23 Oct 1865;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 62-63.

Name: DEANE, ALEXANDER [2]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 097 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1865
Nature: AD contractor responsible for execution of W.G. Murray's design.
Refs: T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 107

Name: WALKER, ROBERT [5]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 097 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1915
Nature: Adds. & imps. Archt: Robert Walker & Son. Tender of John Sisk & Son accepted.
Refs: IB 57, 4 Dec 1915, 526