Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of London, for whom see Oxford DNB and AJ 56, 30 Aug 1922, 276. Thomas Brock, a pupil of JOHN HENRY FOLEY JOHN HENRY FOLEY , designed and executed at least six monumental statues for Ireland, four of them in Belfast.  He was also responsible for completing Foley's O'Connell Monument in Dublin after it had been unveiled.(1)

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References



(1) Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 219.


6 work entries listed in chronological order for BROCK, THOMAS, (SIR) *#


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, GOUGH STATUE
Date: 1875-1788
Nature: Statue by Foley finished by Brock, Birch & Dewich
Refs: B 33, 20 Mar 1875, 264; 36, 19 Oct 1878, 1106.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE, CITY HALL, HARLAND MEMORIAL
Date: 1902
Nature: Statue of Sir Edward James Harland (d.1895), unveiled 1903.
Refs: Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),114

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE, CITY HALL, QUEEN VICTORIA MONUMENT
Date: 1903
Nature: Statue of Queen Victoria and supporting figures.
Refs: Brett, 66; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993),114,124(illus.);  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 127, Fig. 176.

Building: CO. TYRONE, DUNGANNON, NORTHLAND ROW, ROYAL SCHOOL
Date: 1905
Nature: Statue of Brig. Gen. John Nicholson, removed from Kashmir Gate, Delhi
Refs: UAHS Dungannon & Cookstown list, 18.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE, CITY HALL, TITANIC MEMORIAL
Date: 1916-1920
Nature: Statue of Fame with sea nymphs holding a drowned man (originally in Donegall Sq N).
Refs: RA 1916, no. 1781; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 115

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, UNIVERSITY ROAD, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
Date: 1923
Nature: World War I memorial, designed by TB and executed by F. Arnold Wright. Unveiled by Duke of York 21 Jul 1924.
Refs: David Evans & Paul Larmour, Queen’s: an architectural legacy (Institute of Irish Studies, 1995), 39,40(illus.)