Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Name: WEBB, ASTON (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Date: 1904-11
Nature: With Thomas Manly Deane (first phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of back portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey.  FS laid by King Edward VII, 28 Apr 1904. Opened July 1911.
Refs: Drawings in OPW collection; IAA, PKS 0015, 0016, 0600, 0868, 1232, A08 (Dec 1905, Feb 1906), A09 (Jan 1912); designs in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, PB706/2(1-4), see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/o0OqFlEgVq/MAIN_CAT/320480006/9 (last visited Apr 2009);  designs exh. RA 1906 (no. 1468) and 1913 (no. 1681); IB 46, 26 Mar,23 Apr,7 May 1904, 173,237,269,281,282; 47, 28 Jan,25 Mar,29 Jul 1905, 62,189(illus.),525; 49, 30 Nov 1907, 829; 54, 20 Jan,21 Dec 1912, 34,727; 55, 24 May,21 Jun 1913, 333,408,414(illus.); 59, 7 Jul 1917, 348; Building News 91, 12 Oct 1906, 506(plan, also 3 perspective views on unnumbered pages); 101, 21 Jul 1911, 75;   Irish Times, 23,28,29 Apr 1904, 10 Apr 1905, 24 Dec 1908;  IA & C 1, 28 Jan,4 Feb 1911, 8(illus.),24(illus.); B 91, 29 Sep,13 Oct 1906, 374(illus.),430(illus.); Architectural Review 46 (1919), 26(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Date: 1904-11
Nature: With Aston Webb (first phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of back portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. FS laid by King Edward VII, 29 Apr? 1904. Opened July 1911. .
Refs: Drawings in OPW collection; IAA, PKS 0015, 0016, 0600, 0868, 1232, 1235, A08 (208, 209), A09 (24); designs exh. RA 1906 (no. 1468) and 1913 (no. 1681); IB 46, 26 Mar, 23 Apr, 7 May 1904, 173, 237, 269, 281, 282; 47, 28 Jan, 25 Mar, 29 Jul 1905, 62, 189 (illus.), 525; 49, 30 Nov 1907, 829; 54, 20 Jan, 21 Dec 1912, 34, 727; 55, 24 May, 21 Jun 1913, 333, 408, 414 (illus.); 59, 7 Jul 1917, 348; Building News 91, 12 Oct 1906, 506 (plan, also 3 perspective views on unnumbered pages); 101, 21 Jul 1911, 75; IA & C 1, 28 Jan, 4 Feb 1911, 8 (illus.), 24 (illus.); B 91, 29 Sep, 13 Oct 1906, 374 (illus.), 430 (illus.); Architectural Review 46 (1919), 26 (illus.).

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Date: 1911
Nature: Executed statue representing Science in pediment of main portico and statues of Boyle and Hamilton on main front, but all designed by Oliver Sheppard. Also four figure groups on street-front parapet.
Refs: Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 398;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.

Name: HARRISON, C.W., & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Date: 1917
Nature: 2 colossal Portland stone figures and carved drops to the windows on front of same.
Refs: IB 59, 7 Jul 1917, 348;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES LLOYD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Date: ?
Nature: External carving carried out under personal supervision of CLH.
Refs: Obituary of CLH in IB 55, 13 Jun 1913, 411