Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW)
Name: | BENSON, JOHN (SIR) |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW) |
Date: | 1859-1861 |
Nature: | New masonry bridge of 3 elliptical arches. (JB provided 3 designs for iron swivel, iron single arch and stone bridge. Iron single arch design initially chosen but stone bridge eventually built.) FS laid by Earl of Carlisle,10 Nov 1859. Contr: Joshua Hargrave. Clerk of Works: Barnard. (According to Robert Walker bridge was finished in 1863 and cost £17,000.) |
Refs: | B 15, 17 Jan 1857, 78; 17, 5 Mar 1859, 173; 18, 21 Jul 1860, 464; 19, 2 Mar,19 Nov 1861,21 Dec 147,759,887; DB 1, 1 May,1 Dec 1859, 62,155; 2, 1 Jul 1860, 297; 3, 1 Feb,1 Aug,15 Dec 1861, 415,593,712; Irish Times, 12 Nov 1859; Cork Examiner, 12 Dec 1861 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork); MS notes by R. Walker, Cork city surveyor, c. 1890; Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs (1999),194 |
Name: | HARGRAVE, JOSHUA |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW) |
Date: | 1859-1861 |
Nature: | Contractor for rebuilding (Engineer: Sir John Benson) |
Refs: | APSD, Part 14 (1864), H, 22; inscription on SE parapet of bridge |