Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE

Name: ELSAM, RICHARD #
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1809
Nature: Unexecuted. Design for court house & public rooms exh. by Elsam, 1809, at Society of Artists of Ireland (no. 67)
Refs: ALEI, I, 218

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1813-17
Nature: Statues of Justice & Peace on wings stated in Ordnance Survey memoir for Derry to be by 'the late' Edward Smyth, but as he died in 1812 the statues (if purpose made) are more probably by his son and successor John Smyth.
Refs: Drawings by JB in PRONI L/A 5; C.E.B. Brett architects files citing 'O/S Derry 1837'; Robert Simpson, The Annals of Derry(1847), 244

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1813-17
Nature: New classical court house with tetrastyle Ionic portico. Surmounted by statues of Justice & Peace by Edward Smyth (but he died in 1812; more probably by his son and successor John Smyth). Executed by Henry, Mullins & McMahon.
Refs: Drawings by JB in PRONI L/A 5; Pigot and Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824), 395-6; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837),, II, 303; Robert Simpson, The Annals of Derry(1847), 243-4; North West Ulster, 389; W.S. Ferguson, A.J. Rowan, J.J. Tracey, Historic Buildings…in and near the City of Derry (UAHS, 1970), 17(illus),19 and drawing on cover; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses & Market Houses of the Province of Ulster, (UAHS 1973), 17,86,88,90 and drawing on cover.

Name: HENRY, MULLINS & MCMAHON *
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1813-1817
Nature: Built by Henry, Mullins & McMahon to designs of John Bowden.
Refs: Contract in PRONI, L/A 5; NA/SPO CSORP 1825/12,887 (application by DH to succeed Johnston as architect to Board of Works) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Robert Simpson, Annals of Derry (1847), 243-4; C. Brett, Courthouses & Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 88.

Name: ADAIR, ARTHUR CHARLES
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1896-97
Nature: Alts. & adds (including new wing?). Tenders invited, Jul 1896. Estimated cost: £6,289.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0762, B17/17, B17/38, A08 (Jul 1896); Architect 53, 22 Feb 1895, suppl. p.11;  Irish Times, 10 Jul 1896;  IB 38,15 Jul 1896,156,164; IAA Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 389

Name: ROBINSON, MATTHEW ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1902
Nature: Alts. & repairs.
Refs: IB 44, 8 May 1902, 1241

Name: BODDIE, CHARLES LITTLEBOY
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1902-03
Nature: Modifications and re-roofing. Cost: £3,500.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 102

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, BISHOP STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Adds.
Refs: Obituary of TT in IB 33, 15 Oct 1891, 230