Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrqant. Model & design exhibited at Cork National Exhibition, 1852; design exh. Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition 1853, no. 543.
Refs: IALE, I, 48. (For further refs. to this project, see B 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Atkins & Johnson winners of competition with design costing about £14,000. Unexecuted.
Refs: Design exh. at National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork, 1852 (168a); B 10, 10 Mar,31 Jul 1852, 158,483 (for further refs. to town hall project, see alsoB 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13,27 Dec 1851, 124,437,791,817; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23); Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 243-4,248

Name: BRASH, RICHARD ROLT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrant. RRB exhibits design at National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork, 1852 (no. 15)
Refs: IALE, I, 73. (For further refs. to this project, seeB 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)

Name: DEANE, SON & WOODWARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrants. Design 'founded on the Belgic Town Halls'.
Refs: 3 elevations in IAA, Acc. 81/72 (on loan from UCD School of Architecture); perspective view in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe House, Co. Cork (photograph in IAA, neg. no. S/2325/6); prints in IAA, Carberry Collection, Acc. 85/200.64/1-3; National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork, 1852, no. 28a; Irish Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853, no. 747; RHA 1853, no. 390; B 10, 31 Jul 1852, 483; 11, 19 Nov 1853, 701 (for further refs. to this project, seeB 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23); Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 120-127(illus.)

Name: JONES, JOHN PHILPOT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: RA 1857, no. 1090. (For further refs. to this project, see B 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)

Name: HARGRAVE, JOSHUA
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Winner of 2nd prize in competition with design costing about £12,000.
Refs: B 10, 10 Mar,31 Jul 1852, 158,483 (for further refs. to this project, seeB 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13,27 Dec 1851, 124,437,791,817; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23); design exhibited National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork, 1852, no. 237 (IALE, I, 304);  Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 122-3

Name: HURLEY, JOHN PINE
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrant. Design exhibited at National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork' in 1852.
Refs: ALEI, I, 352. (For further refs. to this project, see B 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)

Name: JOHNSON, -
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Winner of competition with William Atkins. Design exhibited at National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures & Products, Cork (no. 168a)
Refs: B 10, 31 Jul 1852, 483; IALE, I, 363. (For further refs. to this project, see B 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)

Name: MURRAY & DENNY
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SULLIVAN'S QUAY, TOWN HALL (PROPOSED)
Date: 1851
Nature: Competition entrants. (2 schemes)
Refs: Competition drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46. nos. 247-253 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 108-109. (For further refs. to this project, see B 7, 10 Feb 1849, 70; 9, 22 Feb,12 Jul,13 Dec 1851, 124,437,791; 10, 21 Feb 1852, 23.)