Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHERINE STREET (& WATER SIDE), PROTESTANT HALL & SABBATH SCHOOL INSTITUTE

Name: DENNY, ABRAHAM
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHERINE STREET (& WATER SIDE), PROTESTANT HALL & SABBATH SCHOOL INSTITUTE
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: Italianate. FS laid 3 Nov 1859. Main building roofed in by Dec 1860. Lighted by 'two very efficient gas deflectors'. Opened 4 Jul 1861. Italianate, red brick with granite dressings. Contractor: Joseph Fitzpatrick. Cost: circa £3,300.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Jul 1861, 578; B 18, 22 Dec 1860, 825; 19, 20 Jul 1861, 495;  Irish Times, 5 Jul 1861;  The Illustrated Guide to Waterford (1917), 35(illus.)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, CATHERINE STREET (& WATER SIDE), PROTESTANT HALL & SABBATH SCHOOL INSTITUTE
Date: 1881
Nature: ‘The new building at the Protestant Hall, Waterford, is rising rapidly, and the contractor expects to have it finished before very long…important addition to the Sunday School Institute’.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 60, 19 Feb 1881, 132.