Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Dublin. William Sedgwick Keatinge, a son of Joseph Francis Keatinge, JP, building contractor of Grafton Street, Dublin,(1) and his wife, Marianne, was born in Dublin on 28 December 1887. He appears to have been working in the office of EDWIN BRADBURY  EDWIN BRADBURY in 1907-1908 and of O'CALLAGHAN & CALLAGHAN & amp; WEBB in 1909-12.(2) In 1913 or 1914 he joined the Office of Public Works. In 1917 with WILLIAM GERATY CLAYTON  WILLIAM GERATY CLAYTON he won the competition for designing premises for the National University of Ireland in Upper Mount Street, Dublin.(3) He left the Office of Public Works in about 1920 and joined the firm of DONNELLY MOORE KEEFE & DONNELLY MOORE KEEFE & amp; ROBINSON ROBINSON . When Keefe and Robinson set up their own practice in Merrion Square in 1925, Donnelly and Moore, who remained in the Sackville Street office, took Keatinge into partnership as DONNELLY MOORE & DONNELLY MOORE & amp; KEATINGE KEATINGE . This partnership lasted until 1937, when the three architects went their separate ways. Keatinge set up in independent practice at 33 Molesworth Street, where he appears to have retained an office until his death. By 1951 he had succeeded WILLIAM FRIEL  WILLIAM FRIEL as architect to the united Church of Ireland dioceses of Ossory, Ferns and Lieghlin.(4) He died very suddenly on 5 August 1964 and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.(5)

AAI: elected member, 1904; hon. secretary, 1908-1910; exhibited two drawings of recently erected houses in exhibition of members' work, 1910;(6) competed for Institute Prize, Session 1911-12 (design for a pier pavilion);(7); winner of Institute Prize, Session 1915-16 (design for a bank manager's residence in a provincial town);(8) vice-president, 1918-19; president, 1926-27.
RIAI: passed first entrance examination, 1912;(9) student, 1913; elected member, 1915;(10) resigned 1920 or 1921 but reinstated, 1922;(11) raised to fellow 1927.(12)
RIBA: elected licentiate, 1925.(13)
Society of Architects: member by 1923.(14)

Addresses: College Park Chambers, 1907-1908; 31 South Frederick Street, 1909-12; Office of Public Works, 1914-1919; 14 Sackville Street Lower, 1922-1937; 33 Molesworth Street, 1937->=1962.
Home: Homestead, Dartry Park, Rathmines, 1905-1906;  61 Harcourt Street, 1911;  60 (or 61?) Rathgar Road, 1913; 23 Berea Terrace, Rathfarnham, 1922; Seaforth, 74 Terenure Road East, <=1925 until death.

See WORKS; see also works of DONNELLY MOORE & DONNELLY MOORE & amp; KEATINGE  KEATINGE and BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHY.



References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from RSAI lists of members, AAI lists of officers and members and Thom's directories. A portrait photograph of Keatinge forms the frontispiece to AAI Year Book 1926-27, another appears in the Irish Times, 6 May 1926..


(1) www.familysearch.org.
(2) A view by him of a house at Sutton designed by O'Callaghan & Webb is reproduced in IB 52, 5 Feb 1910, 86, and one of Atkinsons, No. 2 Church Lane, Dublin, in IA & C 1, 11 Mar 1911, 100.
(3) IB 60, 16 Feb 1918, 85.
(4) Irish Church Directory (1951), 122.
(5) Notice of death in Irish Times(?), 5(?) Aug 1965.
(6) IB 52, 5 Mar 1910, 146.
(7) Design reproduced in supplement to IA & C 2, 15 Jun 1912.
(8) IAA Year Book 19 1916-17, 33; IB 58, 10 Jun 1916, 248.
(9) JRIAI (1913), 3.
(10) JRIAI (1916), 9.
(11) JRIAI (1924) , 4.
(12) IB 69, 15 Oct 1927, 754.
(13) RIBA Kalendar 1957-1958, 311.
(14) Who's who in Architecture (1923), 146.


21 work entries listed in chronological order for KEATINGE, WILLIAM SEDGWICK


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SHIP STREET LITTLE, NO. 011-13 (PEARSON, THOMAS & CO.)
Date: 1914
Nature: Workshop.
Refs: IB 56, 6 Jun 1914, 360

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYMENA, TOWN HALL
Date: 1920
Nature: Placed 3rd in competition for designing same (Winner: Jones & Kelly).  Assessor: W. Kaye-Parry.
Refs: MS letter from Jones to Marie -, 8 Oct 1920 (photocopy in Jones file, J23).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, WAR MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1921
Nature: Designed by W.S. Keatinge of Donnelly, Moore, Keefe & Robinson. Carried out by J.A. Stringer, 75 Upper Rathmines.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0143; IB 63, 10 Sep 1921, 610; AJ 57, 11 Apr 1923, 646,647

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARBOUR COURT, STOREHOUSE
Date: 1923
Nature: New.
Refs: IB 65, 16 Jun 1923, 466

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAND CANAL STREET LOWER, SIR PATRICK DUN'S HOSPITAL
Date: 1938
Nature: New X-ray department; semi-permanent timber construction. Builders: Stone & Sons, Ringsend.
Refs: IB 80, 12 Apr 1938, 314(illus.)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CRUMLIN ROAD, MORACRETE LTD.
Date: 1949
Nature: New tile factory.
Refs: IB 91, 5 Feb 1949, 126

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035 (BROWN BROS.)
Date: 1949
Nature: Additional storey. Contractor: John C. Delaney.
Refs: IAA, PKS 1135

Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLANCHARDSTOWN, BRITISH MARGARINE CO.
Date: 1949
Nature: Adds. & alts. to factory. Contractor: J.A. Syme.
Refs: IAA, PKS 1175

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STRAND STREET GREAT, BAXENDALE LTD.
Date: 1949
Nature: New store.
Refs: IB 91, 5 Feb 1949, 126

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNT STREET UPPER, NO. 006
Date: 1949
Nature: Alts.
Refs: IB 91, 25 Jun 1949, 594

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER, NO. 041-43 (KODAK LTD)
Date: 1949;1951
Nature: Extension, 1949 (Contractor: J.A. Syme); adds., 1951
Refs: IAA, PKS 1190; IB 91, 5 Feb 1949, 126; 93, 15 Sep 1951, 964

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BLACKHEATH GARDENS, NO. 020
Date: 1950
Nature: Garage, for Archer Estates Ltd.
Refs: IB 92, 10 Jun 1950, 606

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STEEVENS'S LANE, SHERWIN & WILLIAMS
Date: 1950-51
Nature: New stores. Contractor: T. & J. Macken.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0586; IB 92, 23 Dec 1950, 1390

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SYDNEY PARADE (MERRION), THE POPLARS
Date: 1951
Nature: Conversion of garage into study.
Refs: IB 93, 18 Aug 1951, 868

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR, SHOPS & RESIDENCE
Date: 1952
Nature: -
Refs: IB 94, 27 Sep 1952, 918

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAROLD'S CROSS ROAD, NO. 289
Date: 1952
Nature: Garage.
Refs: IB 94, 8 Nov 1952, 1070

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNT STREET UPPER, NO. 005-6
Date: 1953
Nature: 5 lock-up garages at rere, for Irish Estates Ltd.
Refs: IB 95, 26 Sep 1953, 1007

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (MINERAL WATER DISTRIBUTORS LTD)
Date: 1953
Nature: Alts. & adds.
Refs: IB 95, 19 Dec 1953, 1325

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY STREET, NO. 059
Date: 1956
Nature: Adds.
Refs: IB 98, 21 Apr 1956, 359

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE AVENUE (CLONTARF), YEW PARK
Date: ?
Nature: Design for proposed houses for Archer Estates.
Refs: Drawings relating to buildings owned and built by Archer Estates, Dublin (later incorporated as Thomas & E.M. Archer Estates Ltd) in IAA, Acc. 2009/130 (folder 2).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LAD LANE, FLATS
Date: ?
Nature: Design for self-contained flats.
Refs: Drawings relating to buildings owned and built by Archer Estates, Dublin (later incorporated as Thomas & E.M. Archer Estates Ltd) in IAA, Acc. 2009/130 (folder 2).

Author Title Date Details
Keatinge, William Sedgwick [President's valedictory address to AAI] 1927 IB 69, 30 Apr 1927, 306.
Keatinge, William Sedgwick [President's inaugural address to AAI] 1927 AAI Green Book (1927), 23-31.