Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, TOWN HALL & MARKET HOUSE

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, TOWN HALL & MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1879-1882
Nature: New town hall erected and finished at expense of Lord and Lady Brabazon. Cost nearly £7,000. (Design evidently derived from Ernest George & Harold Peto's design for a coffee tavern and hostelry at Newark-on-Trent exh. RA 1881, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 17, Pl. 14.)
Refs: IB 21, 1 Sep 1879, 275; 43, 27 Feb 1901, 643; Architect 27, 25 Feb 1882, 117(illus.); RHA 1882, no. 645; Thomas Craig, Guide to Bray (1884), 10; W. Garner, Bray: Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1980), 15-18(illus.);  Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 392

Name: SMITH, J. REYNOLDS *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, MAIN STREET, TOWN HALL & MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1882-83
Nature: Oak chimneypieces in council chamber with figures of Literature, Justice, Commerce and Agriculture.
Refs: W. Garner, Bray: Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1980),18