Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, MARKET HOUSE

Name: MCGAVIGAN, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1833
Nature: Designed by Michael Gavigan or Gaffikin for 3rd Marquess of Downshire. Cost: £2,000.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 63, citing (107) drawings in PRONI D671 P1/8; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 24(no.112)

Name: GAVIGAN, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1833
Nature: New court house, built at expense of Marquess of Downshire (£2,000). Date stone gives date of 1833.
Refs: Signed undated elevations in Downshire MSS, PRONI D671/P1/1-8; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842, 133; Coutnry Life 149, 27 May 1971, 1305; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 63,69(illus.)

Name: LILLY, CHARLES
Building: CO. DOWN, BANBRIDGE, MARKET HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: CL provides design.
Refs: E.R.R. Green & F.M. Jope, 'Patron and architect: an example of relations in the late 18th century', Ulster Journal of Archaeology24-25 (1962), 146, citing PRONI D671/P1/6 (but date of 'c. 1830 surely relates to 2nd market house, see C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses & Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 63