SEDDON, JOHN POLLARD #

Architect, of London, for whom see Michael Darby, John Pollard Seddon (Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983) and Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), II, 575-6.  Seddon was one of the entrants in the competition for designing St Finbarr's Church of Ireland cathedral, Cork.(1)   Later he designed Rossdohan, near Sneem, Co. Kerry (1875-1881) for Dr Samuel Thomas Heard.(2) and in 1877 he also produced a design for the town hall in Arklow, Co. Wicklow, which was not executed.(3)

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References

(1) Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 26 (Apr 1853), 91.
(2) Drawings in Victoria & Albert Museum, see Darby, op. cit., 23,90-91(illus.).
(3) Darby, op. cit., 23.

3 work entries listed in chronological order for SEDDON, JOHN POLLARD #

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Building:	CO. CORK, CORK, BISHOP STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST FINN BARRE (CI)
Date:	1862-63
Nature:	Competition entrant. Design exh. at Architectural Exhibition, London, Apr 1863.
Refs:	Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 26 (Apr 1863), 91

Building:	CO. KERRY, ROSSDOHAN HOUSE (SNEEM)
Date:	1875-1881
Nature:	House for Dr Samuel Thomas Heard. (Burnt out 1922;  new house built on part of site, also burnt ca 1955.)
Refs:	Michael Darby, John Pollard Seddon (Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983) , 23,90-91(illus.)

Building:	CO. WICKLOW, ARKLOW, TOWN HALL
Date:	1877
Nature:	Unexecuted design for same.
Refs:	Michael Darby, John Pollard Seddon (Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983), 23.