Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP'S GATE

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP'S GATE
Date: 1789
Nature: Keystones representing Rivers Foyle and Boyne, copied from those on Custom House, Dublin, and martial trophies..
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 374; Patrick Lenehan, 'Edward Smyth, Dublin's Sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-1990, 71

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP'S GATE
Date: 1789p
Nature: Triumphal arch built as memorial to William III at centenary of openeng of the gates of Derry. 1st stone laid by Mayor., 1789.
Refs: G. Vaughan Sampson, Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry (1802), 481; Mr & Mrs S.C. Hall, Ireland (1841-3), III, 212; T.J. Mulvany, Life of Gandon (1846), 218-219n; APSD, B, 10 and L, 134