Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)

Name: O'HARA, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: 'Mr O'Hara' (not necessarily William O'Hara) a competition entrant.
Refs: J. Sheehy, Kingsbridge Station (Gatherum I, 1973), 7-8.

Name: MURRAY, SON, & DENNY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competition entrants.
Refs: Design exh RHA 1845, no. 465

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: JSM wins competition but job given to Sancton Wood. For Great Southern & Western Railway.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'John Skipton Mulvany, architect, 1813-1870', Martello (Summer 1988), 35(illus.),38; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 31;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 688.

Name: PHAYRE, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1846, no. 428

Name: BARDELL, -
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competition entrant
Refs: Letter from Jeanne Sheehy to E. McParland (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competition entrant
Refs: RHA 1846, no. 498; J. Sheehy, Kingsbridge Station (Gatherum I, 1973), 8

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Letter from Jeanne Sheehy to E. McParland (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845
Nature: Competiton entrant.
Refs: Competition design attributed to WDB in IAA, 75/2.1; J. Sheehy, Kingsbridge Station (Gatherum I, 1973), 7-8

Name: WOOD, SANCTON #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845-47
Nature: Designed terminus of GS & W R. John Skipton Mulvany's plans submitted in competition preferred by Company's Dublin Board, but SW's plans preferred by London committee.. Engineer: Sir John MacNeill. Contractor: William Dargan.
Refs: Pen and watercolour perspective view from SE in RIBA drawings collection, see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects T-Z (1984), 261, and British Architecural Library Catalogue; http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/n2dNGrYoxl/MAIN_CAT/203820009/13 last visited Apr 2009);  another perspective view in collection of Iarnrod Eireann, Heuston Station, Dublin;  RA 1847, no. 1176; RHA 1850, no. 332; B 8, 24 Aug 1850, 406(illus.); 9, 18 Jan 1851, 46; DB 6, 15 May 1864, 94(illus.); Jeanne Sheehy, Kingsbridge Station (Gatherum 1, Aug 1973); Jeanne Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12, no. 68 (Oct 1975), 134-5; Gordon Biddle, 'Sancton Wood - Railway Architect', II, BackTrack 21, no. 11 (Nov 2007), 698,699(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 687-8.


Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845-47
Nature: Gilbert Cockburn and Arthur Williams contractors for stonework
Refs:

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1845-6
Nature: Passenger sheds, workshops and other buildings designed and erected by RM for Great Southern & Western Railway Co.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 688.

Name: MACNEILL, JOHN BENJAMIN (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1848
Nature: Large train shed at rear.
Refs: R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998),33-35(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 687-8.

Name: LOUCH, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1858
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for new street called Grand Parade, linking terminus with west end of Dame St.
Refs: B 16, 28 Aug,16,30 Oct 1858, 590,699,723; DB 1, 1 Jan 1859, 3; IB 9, 1 Sep 1867, 219

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1870
Nature: Works in connection with Traffic Manager's office have been carried out. Builder: Wm. Conolly.
Refs: IB 12, 15 Aug 1870, 200

Name: CARROLL & BATCHELOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1904
Nature: New solicitor's office. For GS&WR.
Refs: IAA, PKS 20/21 (p.253); IB 46, 10 Sep 1904, 594

Name: GORDON, ALBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1911-12
Nature: New 2-storey office building, 80 ft long & 60 ft wide. Contractor: H. & J. Martin, Ltd. Estimated cost: £1,445.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0920, B21/70, A08 (Oct 1911); IB 54, 20 Jan 1912, 51.

Name: DEWHURST, JOHN CADWALLADER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KINGSBRIDGE, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1920?
Nature: JCW designs 'a neat addition...without disturbing the symmetry of Sancton Wood's designs, the porter's lodge and the carriage way being exceptionally good, simple as it is'.
Refs: AJ 51, 28 Apr 1920, 561