Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder and stone-cutter of Cork, active in the second decade of the eighteenth century, for whom see Loeber. According to Loeber, it 'seems likely that he designed his own buildings'. He may be the same person - or perhaps the father of - the John Coltsman, who prepared plans with THOMAS DAUNT  THOMAS DAUNT for a new Corn Market in Cork in 1739.(1)

See WORKS.



References



(1) R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 584,590.


6 work entries listed in chronological order for COLTSMAN, JOHN


Sort by date | Sort alphabetically


Building: CO. CORK, CORK, NORTHGATE BRIDGE
Date: 1712
Nature: New stone bridge. (Widened, 1831, probably by means of projecting iron footpaths described by Lawson.) 
Refs: J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ? ; APSD 2, C, 147 (entry on Cork by Richard Rolt Brash); J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 287;  Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 40, citing J. Coleman, ed., Windele's Cork (1910), 28, gives date as 1717.

Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTHGATE BRIDGE
Date: 1713-14
Nature: Bridge of 3 semi-circular arches. Built by Coltsman and Thomas Chatterton, mason. Cost: £300.
Refs: R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 364,373; APSD. C, 147; MS notes by R. Walker, Cork city surveyor, c. 1890.

Building: CO. CORK, CASTLE BERNARD
Date: 1715p
Nature: JC works at same, for - Bernard.
Refs: Toby Barnard, Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland 1641-1770( 2004), 48,385n149

Building: CO. LAOIS, CASTLE DURROW
Date: 1715p
Nature: Works under Benjamin Crawley at same, for William Flower.
Refs: NLI MS 11455(2) (E.McP files); Toby Barnard, Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland 1641-1770 (2004), 48,126,385n149

Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1718-1720
Nature: New church to accommodate 2,000 built by JC. FS laid 17 Mar 1718. Cost £3,600. Steeple taken down, 1748. (Internally remodelled and tower removed by G.R. Pain in 1828.) Funds partly raised by levying coal tax.
Refs: Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z.2.1.7 (58);  Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837),  126,131;  J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; View of Greencoat Hospital and other charitable organizations in Cork (1721), ? ; APSD 2, C, 147 (entry on Cork by Richard Rolt Brash); Mark Bence-Jones, 'A city of vanished waterways - Cork I', Country Life 142, 3 Aug 1967, 251(illus.)

Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CORNMARKET STREET, CORN MARKET (OLD)
Date: 1739-1740
Nature: Prepares plans for, with Thomas Daunt. Coltsman and Daunt consulted re plans (theirs or W. Halfpenny's?), 3 Dec 1739, which were approved. Upper storey removed, 18[?]43, when 3 pediments and central block added. Lawson says Corn Market was converted into Bridewell, q.v. but Tuckey says it was demolished, 1811.
Refs: Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 130,237;  R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 584,590,591,626; J.P Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 287; Country Life 142, 3 Aug 1967, 253.