Selected: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, COURT HOUSE
Name: | PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD |
Building: | CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, COURT HOUSE |
Date: | 1826ca |
Nature: | GRP supervising architect. (One of 5 court houses built to the Pains' 'Design for a court house and bridewell to be built in the different sessions towns in the County of Cork' of 6 May 1824) 'The sessions house and bridewell is a large and handsome bulding in the Grecian style, occupying an elevated site near the entrance to the town from Cork.' (Lewis) |
Refs: | NA/SPO CSORP 1826/13,534 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 558; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 189 |