Architectural partnership, formed between JOHN MCCURDY JOHN MCCURDY and WILLIAM MANSFIELD MITCHELL WILLIAM MANSFIELD MITCHELL in 1872. The formal partnership was eventually dissolved. 'McCurdy & Mitchell' ceases to be named as such in the street directory section of Thom's directory for 1881 although both the 1881 and 1882 directories show McCurdy and Mitchell individually as still working from 10 Leinster Street. In 1883 only Mitchell is listed at 10 Leinster Street, while McCurdy gives 'Office of Works, Trinity College' as his business address. This suggests that the partnership definitely ended in or before 1882 and that McCurdy had decided to confine himself to working for Trinity. After McCurdy's death in 1885, Mitchell stayed on at 10 Leinster Street until 1889.
Addresses: Work: 7 Leinster Street, 1871-72; 10 Leinster Street, 1873-1880
See WORKS. For the purposes of this database all works not specifically attributed to one or other of the architects individually between 1872 and 1882 are listed under MCCURDY & MITCHELL. MCCURDY & MITCHELL.
References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from Thom's directories.
IB 98, 8 Sep 1956, 815.
47 work entries listed in chronological order for MCCURDY & MITCHELL
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CO. DUBLIN, STILLORGAN, STILLORGAN ROAD, THE PRIORY |
| Date: |
1872 |
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Alts. for Henry Dudgeon. |
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Drawings, &c., 1872, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin VIII, Roll 8
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CO. WESTMEATH, CLONYN CASTLE |
| Date: |
1872ca |
| Nature: |
Original plans by McCurdy but design claimed by Mitchell. |
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Undated drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin V, Rolls 34a & 34b; IAA, PKS B05/30; RHA 1874, no. 296, 1875, no,. 215; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 268
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CO. CARLOW, POLLACTON |
| Date: |
1873 |
| Nature: |
Handsome lodge lately erected, for Sir Charles William Cuffe Burton, Bt. Ironwork by William Turner, Oxmantown Foundry, Dublin |
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IB 15, 1 Mar 1873, 72 (Drawings for Pollacton and Burton Hall, 1863-71, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin III, Roll 1)
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CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, NEWTOWN PARK AVENUE, ARDLUI |
| Date: |
1873 |
| Nature: |
Alts., for William Perry. |
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Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin VI, Roll 7
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE |
| Date: |
1873-74 |
| Nature: |
Proposal for reading room connected with library, chemical laboratory, and chambers facing Campanile submitted in limited competition with T.N. Deane. McC's design for arcaded single storey laboratory praised by IB reviewer of RIAI exhibition, 6 Jan 1874. |
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Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/385,391; reading room designs repr. & discussed by Edward McParland in C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university (1991), 164(illus.),178; IB 16, 1 Feb 1874, 32
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CO. DUBLIN, MOUNT MERRION, HOUSE |
| Date: |
1874 |
| Nature: |
For Mr Murphy (?in Cross Ave) |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1874, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 82/49.49
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CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, COLLEGE ROAD, ST COLUMBA'S COLLEGE |
| Date: |
1874-1875 |
| Nature: |
New school room, forming fourth side of quadrangle. Contractor: William Harpur, Blackrock. Entire cost amounts to about £1800. Opened, Dec 1875. Destroyed by fire, 1896. |
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IB 17, 15 Dec 1875, 351; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, no. 199, 23 Dec 1875, 306. Fred W. Attwood, 'History of St Columba's College', The Columban Annual (1933), 51,52
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, ANATOMICAL MUSEUM |
| Date: |
1874-76 |
| Nature: |
New museum building. Tenders invited, Apr 1874. Building claimed by Mitchell in Cosgrave and given to McCurdy by Casey, who describes it as 'a dull two-storey eleven bay building with round- and segment-headed windows, and advanced doorcases and wayward Venetian windows at the ends'. (Now Departments of Pharmacology, Physiology and Zoology.) |
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5 contract drawings signed by John McCurdy, 1874,75, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17.28/1-7; Irish Times, 3,4 Apr 1874; C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university (1991), 161, fig. 16; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 268; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 410.
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CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN, CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: |
1875 |
| Nature: |
Proposed adds. 'Major Barton is completely restoring and beautifying, in the most church-like style, the church of Straffan.'
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Drawings &c. in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Bin VII, Roll 19; Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 17, 22 Oct 1875, 242.
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CO. MEATH, BOLTOWN (KELLS), HOUSE |
| Date: |
1875 |
| Nature: |
House for J.H. Dyas |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1875, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin XII, Roll 9
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CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMORE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI, KILBRIDE PARISH) |
| Date: |
1875 |
| Nature: |
New church in Ballymore demesne built from proceeds of will of Matthew Kinch. Replaced earlier church.
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Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin VI, Roll 8; Exterior illus. in Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 446; Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 345(illus.); National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15701615 (last visited, Dec. 2014).
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CORNMARKET, NO. 010-13 (JAMES H. WEBB & CO.) |
| Date: |
1876-77 |
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New warehouse completed in 1877. Included the rebuilding of the 'entire front block extending back upwards of thirty feet'. The two fronts were faced with cut granite from 'the Wicklow quarries'. The building 'will add to the street improvement in that quarter.' Plate glass for shop windows supplied by Sibthorpe. Builder Mr Bolton.
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Drawings, &c., 1876, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin III, Roll 36; Irish Times, 2 Mar 1877; IB 19, 1 Apr 1877, 104
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CO. DUBLIN, BALBRIGGAN, LOWTHER LODGE |
| Date: |
1876;1878 |
| Nature: |
Gate lodge, for Capt. F. McCartney Filgate. Tenders invited for carrying out additions and alterations to house, May1878.
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Drawings, &c., 1876, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin VIII, Roll 17; Freeman's Journal, 2 May 1878.
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GEORGE'S STREET SOUTH GREAT, SOUTH CITY MARKETS |
| Date: |
1878 |
| Nature: |
Unselected entrants in limited competition.. |
| Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Rolls 24a,24b (two framed; repr. in D. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (1993), 66,67); Building News, 14 Jun 1878, ?
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 008 (HIBERNIAN UNITED SERVICE CLUB) |
| Date: |
1878 |
| Nature: |
Alterations and additions; 'just commenced', May 1878.
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Drawings, &c., 1878, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin V, Roll 32; Irish Times, 22 May 1878.
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CO. DUBLIN, MONKSTOWN, RICHMOND HILL, HOUSE |
| Date: |
1878 |
| Nature: |
Alts. & repairs to cottage, for S. Davis. |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1878, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin XI, Roll 24
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CO. KILDARE, LULLYMORE |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
Adds., for W.B. Murphy. |
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Drawings &c. in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Bin VII, Roll 27
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CO. WESTMEATH, ARDGLAS |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
Alts. & adds., for W.P. Bond, JP. |
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Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin VI, Roll 5
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CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN (KILCULLEN), CHURCH (CI, CARNALWAY PARISH) |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
New chancel with organ chamber, just built; added to original church built by John La Touche in demesne of Harristown House in 1798. Contractor: Thomas Waldron. New organ by Telford & Telford. |
| Refs: |
Design for church and glebe house, exh. RHA, 1881, no. 644; IB 21, 15 Aug 1879, 246
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BUSHY PARK ROAD (RATHGAR), MEADOW BANK, HOUSES (035) |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
35 houses at Meadowbank for William Keating Clay. |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1879, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin III, Roll 24
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CO. DUBLIN, GLENAGEARY, SILCHESTER ROAD, LISMOLIN |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
Alts. |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1879, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin XI, Roll 5
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CO. SLIGO, DOOBEG HOUSE |
| Date: |
1879 |
| Nature: |
House and gate lodge for Charles Phibbs. |
| Refs: |
Information from J.A.K. Dean in letter to AMR of 20 Jul 2004 (see drawing for gate lodge of Lowther Lodge, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin VIII, Roll 17, which is noted. 'for Charles Phibbs')
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, RUBRICS |
| Date: |
1879a |
| Nature: |
Unexecuted proposals for rebuilding the Rubrics. |
| Refs: |
Drawings in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17.29, and framed perspective view (repr. C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university (1991), 170, fig. 24); RHA 1879, no. 322
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CO. KILDARE, CASTLEDERMOT, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (CI) |
| Date: |
1880 |
| Nature: |
New west front. Foundation stone and 'first principal stone of the arch' laid by Marquess of Kildare, 8 Jun 1880.
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| Refs: |
Irish Times, 11 Jun 1880, 6; illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 302.
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, MASONIC GIRLS' SCHOOL |
| Date: |
1880-82 |
| Nature: |
New school in Queen Anne style erected from plans by McC & M. Tenders invited, Dec 1879. FS laid 24 Jun 1880 by Duke of Abercorn. Estimated cost: £12,000. Brought 'almost to completion' by contractor: Gahan & Son, who went bankrupt in process. Completed under supervision of William Bolger, clerk of works. Design claimed by Mitchell in Cosgrave. Tenders invited 'for Ironwork, Gates and Railings (about 200 yards), Sep 1880. Not officially opened until 9 Nov 1882
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| Refs: |
Perspective view in Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street; Irish Times, 18 Dec 1879,.27 Sep 1880,10 Nov 1882; IB 22, 15 Feb,1 Jul, 56,182; 24, 1 Sep,15 Nov 1882, 250,337; 52, 2 Apr 1910, 199(illus.); E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 268; Obituary of Mitchell by R.M. Butler in IB 52, 19 Mar 1910, 173
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CO. WICKLOW, GLENDALOUGH HOUSE |
| Date: |
1881-82 |
| Nature: |
Alts., for C.W. Barton. |
| Refs: |
Drawings, &c., 1881-2, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin VI, Roll 35
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