Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE STREET, NO. 001-2 (PROVINCIAL BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE STREET, NO. 001-2 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1862-64
Nature: New bank on site of Irish Institution. Builder: John Nolan, 3 Meredyth Pl. Cost: £36,000, greatly in excess of sum of 'about £20,000' specified in original contract of 1863, and subject of lawsuit, 1869-1870.  Stuccowork by Thomas Saunders.  Door by Skidmore Art Metal Co.
Refs: IAA, PKS B05/10, A03 (Nov 1862, Oct 1868-Mar 1870, pp.50v, 119v, 120v 121v), L1 (pp.245,247-8,250-1,304); DB 4, 1 Jul,1 Dec 1862, 165,312; 9, 1 May 1867, 108,109(illus.); 11, 1 Jan,1,15 Dec 1869, 12,269,294; 12, 15 Feb 1870, 47; 13, 1 Sep 1871, 226,227(illus.); Irish Times, 9 Dec 1869,29 Jan,1 Feb 1870;   Freeman's Journal, 29 Jan 1870;  B 22, 7 May 1864, 338-9;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 423. .

Name: LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE STREET, NO. 001-2 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1864
Nature: Allegorical sculpture in pediment representing Erin with Commerce and Agriculture.
Refs: B 22, 7 May 1864, 338; DB 6, 15 May 1864, 100;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 132, Figs.188,189 (gives date as 1868).

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE STREET, NO. 001-2 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1937
Nature: Works at same. With A.J. Stafford.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0025

Name: STAFFORD, ARTHUR JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE STREET, NO. 001-2 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1937
Nature: Works at same. With W.M. Mitchell.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0025