Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, COURT HOUSE & BRIDEWELL

Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, COURT HOUSE & BRIDEWELL
Date: 1840ca
Nature: New court house (or enlargement and remodelling of one built ten years earlier) with round-headed windows and Greek revival doorcase. Also bridewell. Loan of £950 from Board of Works, 1842. Rowan and Brett suggest attribution to WC but cf. Jacob Owen.
Refs: Grand Jury Presentments, 1839, 1840; 10th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1842), 22; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 58; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 155