Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MITCHELL, FREDERICK CHARLES #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)
Date: 1928-29
Nature: Tender for building cinema, restaurant, &c. placed with Meagher & Hayes, Drinan Street, Cork. To cost £80,000. Opened Nov 1929. 'Venetian' interior designed and executed by W.E. Greenwood.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0500 (includes drawings); also in IAA, drawing by Mitchell, 2011/153; Architect & Building News 120, 6 Jul 1928, 27; Silver Jubilee Souvenir Programme 1924-1954;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 214. Colour drawing of front elevation of proposed cinema ['Metropole'] by F.C. Mitchell in Dublin Civic Museum Collection in Dublin City Archives.


Name: GLEN, WILLIAM R. #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)
Date: 1929a
Nature: New cinema, for Associated British Cinemas Ltd. Marble work by C.W. Harrison & Sons.
Refs: Advertisement in AAI Green Book (1930), 9

Name: HARRISON, C.W., & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)
Date: 1929a
Nature: New cinema, for Associated British Cinemas Ltd. Marble work for new cinema by C.W. Harrison & Sons.
Refs: Advertisement in AAI Green Book (1930), 9

Name: SCOTT, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)
Date: 1938
Nature: MS surveys damage after fire of 1938.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0500 (includes drawings)

Name: HIGGINBOTHAM, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA)
Date: ?
Nature: JJH supervised construction as Dublin Corporation's Surveyor of Places of Public Resort.
Refs: Obituary of JJH in RIAI Yearbook 1951-52, 15