Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, ANGLESEA STREET, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ANGLESEA STREET, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL
Date: 1864-65
Nature: New school with campanile.   Italianate, built of red and black brick with Portland stone dressings. Construction begun, Jan 1864. Completed by Aug. 1865. (In use until 1990; now occupied by District Court.)
Refs:  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 36-38 (illus.; also colour plate between pp. 53 & 54).), citing Illustrated London News, 19 Apr 1865.